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To: jack bittner who wrote (6307)	1/25/2000 12:26:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

Hello Again, Jack. "..i take it FTTH means fibre to the home." Yes, that's correct. And FTTC would be fiber to the curb, with coaxial or twisted pair into the residence. "..when you write "passives", do you mean the passive components fabricated by such as the JDS of JDSU? if so, how would that relate to the task?" Regardless of who the manufacturer is, I am speaking about the use of passive devices, but more specifically the use of Passive Optical Network architectures, or PONs, as they are called. These are advantageous for their simplicity of design and their avoidance (or minimizing) of "active" electronics in the field between the optical field node and the residence. ".. when you relate "the end of 3G wireless deployments and the commencement of FTTHs", do you mean that wireless is one form of solving the last mile which will "end".."when fibre to the home begins?" Heavens, no. Sorry for the lack of clarity there. At least that wasn't my intent when I wrote it. -s- "...or that the deployment* of 3G wireless will have been completed, and then fibre to the home will begin? is there some relationship between 3G wireless and fibre to the home i do not understand?"* Yes, I meant that the wireless deployments would start first (wave 1, for example), and that fiber would commence sometime later (during a subsequent wave 2). The latter would not necessarily obviate (and it certainly wouldn't have the effect of immediately eliminating) the former, or vice versa, except in selected situations where individual subscribers chose to change their provider. But in theory, they would coexist. I say "in theory" because in some cases the market's own way of doing natural selection may itself obviate one or the other, on the basis of who was in a given locale first, and how much share they already enjoyed prior to the second provider making their first venture into the same locale. In theory, it has been argued that these dynamics will dictate who goes where, and who wont. But this remains to be seen. Regards, Frank Coluccio