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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (10)10/24/2000 2:19:21 PM
From: The Phoenix  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13
 
Makes no sense.... not at all. They must be looping to the green boxes... using PON's for distribution to the curb/house.

If they're homeruning to the home they will fail. They will have a cable management problem that will be unsolvable.... The cost of the fiber isn't the issue so much - it's the cable management (you can't twist a peice of glass like you can a piece of copper... then there's the splicing, connectorization issues...