[SLL] Nationwide Internet: melting down? --> fiber in Mass.

[Nicholas Bodley]

On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:17:59 -0400, Tim Maher <tim at consultix-inc.com>  
wrote:

> (maybe they ran a dedicated fiber optic cable right to his house? 8-} )

Verizon recently installed HDPE fiber ducts in our apt. complex  
(single-story buildings). Every apt. has a duct from the basement up to  
the "broom closet", which might become something of a wire ^Z^Z^Z^Z fiber  
closet. Fiber to the premises...

No FiOS here, yet, most likely because the duct is plugged, the duct being  
for in-service POTS/DSL Cu pairs from the pole to the basement for the  
complex.

Right outside my back door is a rather-big box on the util. pole; it's a  
local [hub?] for FiOS.
Fibers in the cable between poles are grouped onto flat carrier strips of  
probably a dozen per strip; jacket color coding probably follows trad.  
telco Cu pair practice.

Unofficial info. about provisioning FiOS customers is that it costs  
Verizon about $1,000 each.

Speakeasy said that Eastern-US Cu pairs are becoming expensive to  
maintain, hence the push for fiber.

Regards,

-- 
Nicholas  B o d l e y
Waltham, Mass.