On 7/12/07, Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, micky coughes wrote: > I can see that *everybody* is missing the point on Peter's exercise. > Clearly this is to show to the telcos of the world that you can upgrade to a > native IP infrastructure and absorb the existing transport into the router > with a minimal effort. There was a post here from someone that was there > that explained how simple it was. This is HUGE! This has the potential to > completely disrupt telco transport dinosaur groups *and* reshape the > future. Taking it to his mom's house is just a poke in the telco eye, he is > making fun of them. This then begs the question why can they do it between > their facilities? If one guy can do it to a *house* it must not be that > hard. However, telcos with transport groups of 1000s can't pull this off, > this little project states volumes. Anyone can buy CRS-1 from Cisco. All you need is money.
Busting out my handy dandy cisco configuration tool I can see that this is a very expensive CPE solution. This exercise cannot be about last mile delivery, thinking so is foolish. Given that and moving the technology to the core it becomes: Money + laying off thousands of worthless telco TDM transport people. The solution that is presented is to take an existing 10G transport DWDM network, remove transponders, replace with router gear instead of forklifting the end terminal systems. This is a viable model.
Why are you waiting for the telco's to do something?
I am waiting for them to go out of business so I can pick assets pennies on the dollar. Japan is spending over USD $30 Billion to bring 100Mbps to the most (but
not all) of their country. Verizon is spending about $23 Billion on FTTH to reach 18 million homes. CableLabs is hoping DOCSIS 3.0 will bring 400+ Mbps to the home without needing to replace the coax plant with fiber to the home.
You are confused and your argument is orthogonal. 40G home delivery is not currently an viable business model given the CPE cost. This is about upgrading your current transport from 10G to 40G with minimal cost and effort. For those that want 100G replace the handoff and incorporate the same or better modulation schemes. Welcome to the Bell 202 to Bell 212 upgrade. All you need is money. That is left as an simple exercise for the reader.
And to you obviously money is an infinite resource.