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Is the fiber being utilized and for what???

Yes, that's what it is all about. Right now just for internet. They will supply video (CATV) probably as soon as they get approvals and Cablevision is made to stop bitching.

Any idea what brand name interface on the homes they are using...

No but the next time I see one or see one going in I'll make it a point to be nosy.

... many times three or four trucks at a single splice.

This is a learning experience for everybody. They weren't all there to make the job go quicker, an instructor was showing the others. I was waiting for them to do fusion splices, I wanted to watch that myself but I was never around when they did it.

-Hal


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I understand that the fiber will be used for dial tone, internet and cable, as far as the hookup at the side of the house they are still running the cable and have not gotton to that stage of the operation. Also there will be three types of service. I think they called it 10, 20 ,30 lowest one for home use, next for small business, and the last for the big guys. The unit will be located at the side of the house with rj-45 type plugs and electric (installed and supplied by customer) Also heard that copper cable will stay due to the fact that not all want this other type of service

My brother in law is on the engineer team that is involved with fiber to the house in
MA. They are testing and runing the service to about a dozen different communities all over the Boston area. It's exclusively to the home. They say that sometime in the distant future they will start offering it to business.

But the ability to offer voice data and video as a single provider is what Verizon sees as their future. Phone companies will not (one can argue are not) surviving from offering POTS to granma.

They will NEVER rip out the copper, nor will they stop supporting it, I suspect anytime in the next 50-70 years,(though you can expect surcharges for copper like you have now for tone on your phone bill) but the cost of installing fiber to new developments coupled with the services it offers far outweight doing copper. IF you are talking about voip as in dialtone over broadband, everyone will be doing it very soon. If you are talking about VOIP as in PBX every one who has a legit use for it will be using. Right now it's hype to a large degree, but there are REAL and practical apps for it and as businesses learn about the technology they will find new and creative ways of using it. Like everything else.

Interesting article on the subject.
https://telecommagazine.com/Americas/article.asp?Id=AR_910

I have been on a few new installs here in MA where Verizon has run a fiber strand to new housing developments. All underground that I have seen so far...this is what the customer is to expect in the future:
1. Up to 4 telephone lines.
2. 40MB Internet (YES 40 meg to the house)
3. Television Service over 400 channels (Sorry Comcast!!!)

There is more I am sure but that is what I gleaned from a recent Boston Sunday Globe artical about the whole thing. The pricing they talked about was amazing...only $39.99 for the 40MB internet. That's down and up too because of the fiber path.

They also cut out the need for their biggest expense, other than the labor, and that's the power company. Verizon has complained a lot about the cost, to them, for the power that they have to buy to put on the phone lines. With the fiber they put a somewhat huge (2x1 1/2 or so) interface device for the fiber to the copper conversion and hand off for TV and internet but there are connections in the interface for everything. The box needs to be plugged into a customer power outlet for power.

The future is happening...get on board or take a different trip.

~Chris

Been lurking around here for a few weeks, so I figured it was time to start posting.

VoIP will pretty much be the only thing anyone buys in the enterprise space by 2008, in the residential space it's pretty much up to Vonage and the Cable Cos. My feeling is that RBOCs will drag their feet for as long as humanly possible to protect their Centrex and POTS money.

Still, I can't wait to see SBC go head-to-head with Comcast.