On 1/25/2017 11:58 AM, Marco Coelho wrote:
Some of my friends at Verizon are talking a major shift in their Fiber Deployment. They have decided Fiber to the Home is non practical. They have adopted a fiber to the pedestal scheme with the last part of the connectivity being wireless to the home. Details on bands used have not been provided, but that is apparently their new model. They have sold their copper plant in Texas to Frontier as a part of this plan. Interesting times.
That's right. FiOS is basically over, for new builds. Too expensive. It is mostly down to some FTTPR (fiber to the press release). They told Boston that they would build FiOS there. Lots of good press last year. But they actually had built out some neighborhoods about a decade ago, and simply not activated it. So now they're activating it and claiming it's a new build. But in the meantime they are planning massive densification of their wireless capacity, using street light poles, and basically just building fiber to the pole. They've told this to Wall Street; they haven't made it clear to the locals.
While 4G meant LTE, 5G apparently just means "whatever we do after deploying LTE, because 5 comes after 4".
ATT has this "IP transition" plan which doesn't have much to do with IP. It basically means they're abandoning most of the copper, updating some short loops to U-Verse, and putting in a lot more wireless to replace the copper. It's not fiber speed but it's cheap. Both AT&T and Verizon are very very interested in 3.5 GHz CBRS, as well as millimeter wave for where that works. You may recall that a few months ago, AT&T announced a plan to put millimeter wave backhaul on top of utility poles, beaming pole to pole (about half a mile), and using the electrical wires as a sort of waveguide to help the signal.
-- Fred R. Goldstein k1io fred "at" interisle.net Interisle Consulting Group +1 617 795 2701
<<attachment: fred.vcf>>
_______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
