Why re-ignite?
If this were a viable solution, you would not need to re-ignite it. Let it rest in peace (R.I.P). Some addictions are hard to break. Those of you who were born with a copper spoon in your mouth, are going to have to accept that wireline technologies such as copper, cable and fiber are not going to be viable solutions.
Local area network and wide area network capacities are keeping pace with the tremendous growth in data traffic, but the "local loop bottleneck" between them is getting worse.
During many powerline transmission tests last year in the US, the maximum transmission speed were just around 10 megabits per second. While elsewhere in the world where 220v AC is standard, powerline transmission may be a short-term solution.
Attempts by Telco's to prolong the inevitable demise of the aging voice-grade copper lines using xDSL technology are plagued by limitations on distance, copper quality, and, ironically, bandwidth.
Cable plants will face similar bandwidth problems as capacity reaches its maximum.
And fiber, while offering plenty of bandwidth, at $250,000 per mile to install, is too expensive to justify trenching to any but the very largest commercial buildings.
The only solution that will be economically viable is wireless broadband access (WBA) extensions from existing high-speed fiber rings. This technology will also one day reach capacity. But unlike a wired solution, wireless scalability is achieved quickly and economically by replacing the hardware at the first and last mile. No trenching that long middle mile.
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