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To: D. K. G. who wrote (8732)	10/2/2000 10:53:49 PM
From: D. K. G.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

Getting to the nirvana-networked home CableLabs works to identify all possible consumer scenarios By Leslie Ellis, Industry Analyst cedmagazine.com

To: D. K. G. who wrote (8732)	10/2/2000 11:44:59 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Denis, Thanks for posting that find. I think that it's very interesting, and rather significant, to see the number -- and rapid succession -- of FTTH articles, recently. FAC

To: D. K. G. who wrote (8732)	10/3/2000 5:26:24 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 12823

Who tagged "FTTH as too costly, too cumbersome and unnecessary." Guess who. To whom does this benefit? Now read, please, 'A personal rant almost on topic' from justone. Read and weep. Companies are surrounding Africa and Latin America laying fiber like crazy. I don't mean pulling a couple of miles down an affluent suburb. I mean surrounding two poor CONTINENTS. Telecoms do not emulate the computer business which just build an run like hell. In telecoms they have to calculate Erlangs and other crap before you start building anything. Do you know how we build mobile networks, (and why mobile will bury fixed wireline telecoms)? I will tell you. We run like hell. We are building now and a team goes behind us optimisizing. Nokia built 400 sites in one year in Poland, and the tired people after finishing said that no one will break their record. Here in Czech Republic we built 750 in less than one year and we are saying this will be one difficult to beat. I know our record will be beat in the 3G roll outs. Because we must run like hell. In traditional telecoms they have to write a 1200-page documents with rules for unbundling (is there in BellSouth Home Page). Not to mention rules, (inherited from an a analog past) that, for all practical purposes have lost their meaning. It is under this perspective that FTTH is not feasible. Siemens has a system (I cound't find in their home page) to pull fiber that does not require to dig ditches and lay duct work. They cut a slit just where the curb join the asphalt with an special machine put the fiber cable inside and seal it. Clean and fast.