[opendtv] Re: The ultimate last mile solution is a gas
- From: Bob Miller <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 20:26:27 -0400
Doug McDonald wrote:
>Bob Miller wrote:
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>>>Bob Miller wrote:
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>>>Ah ... do you mean "Japan" or do you mean "Tokyo"? How universal is
>>>this in Japan? You seem the equate "USA" to "Manhattan, NY".
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>>>Doug McDonald
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>>It seems the competitive arena in Japan has the players competing on
>>bandwidth alone. That makes for lots of bandwidth. This article explains...
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>>http://fibers.org/articles/fs/9/1/2/1#FSEana1_01-05
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>>Bob Miller
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>Quote from that web site:
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>'The distribution of population in Japan certainly favours an FTTH
>topology. "The service providers are justified in running fibre out to
>an apartment building and then distributing the capacity of that fibre
>to the many subscribers throughout the building," says Perrin. "What
>they are able to do is share the cost of laying that fibre and of that
>capacity and certainly bring in revenue from multiple subscribers. This
>is much less common in the US, where the population is heavily dispersed."'
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>This implies serving only the dense population areas.
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>Just as I thought.
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>Doug McDonald
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Densely populated areas are where 95% of the population lives in Japan.
Bob Miller
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