[opendtv] Re: The ultimate last mile solution is a gas
- From: "John Willkie" <JohnWillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 17:51:59 -0700
it's that last 5% -- about 20%+ of the land area -- that's a bitch.
John Willkie
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From: "Bob Miller" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 5:26 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: The ultimate last mile solution is a gas
> Doug McDonald wrote:
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> >Bob Miller wrote:
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> >>Doug McDonald 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.
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> Bob Miller
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