Scott, I've been down this road with Masataka. over the last few days. I gave up.
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Scott Helms <khe...@zcorum.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Masataka Ohta < > mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote: > > > Scott Helms wrote: > > > > > Numbers? Examples? > > > > Greenfield SS and PON deployment costs in Japan was already shown. > > > > Japan has one of the highest population densities of major economies in the > world with an average density of 873 per square mile. The US on the other > hand has 89 per square mile. Canada has an average density of 10 people > per square mile. I would also say that Japan's consumer behavior and > regulatory climate are all significantly different from the North American > market so making blanket statements is pretty silly. > > If you want to make your case then why don't you, the only Japanese & > English speaker on this list I know of, extract the math behind the NTT > papers and present why its cheaper in Japan and we can then see if that > applies equally in the US & Canada. > > > > > > This is simply incorrect in many places. The only > > > reasons to run PON are financial, since Ethernet out performs it, > > > > No, the only reason to insist on PON is to make L1 unbundling > > not feasible. > > > > I don't know what conspiracy theory you're ascribing to here, but this is > incorrect. > > > > > > are you > > > saying that all greenfield PON installs are cheaper done as Ethernet > > > without exception? > > > > No, SS is cheaper than PON without exception. > > > > Prove it. > > > > > > If the initial density of subscribers is high, SS is fine. > > > > If it is not, initially, most electric equipment, OE port, > > fibers, splitters and a large closures containing the splitters > > of PON can not be shared by two or more subscribers, which means > > PON incurs much more material and labor cost for each initial > > subscriber than SS. > > > > Masataka Ohta > > > > > > -- > Scott Helms > Vice President of Technology > ZCorum > (678) 507-5000 > -------------------------------- > http://twitter.com/kscotthelms > -------------------------------- >
