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From: westmark!dave@uunet.uu.net (Dave Levenson)
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Subject: Re: Fiber Optics and ESS??
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Date: 17 Dec 89 19:44:32 GMT
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In article <2193@accuvax.nwu.edu>, myerston@cts.sri.com writes:

> When I read Marvin Sibu's original comment (No fiber to the home for a
> decade (at least)) I thought he was being wildly optimistic.  Now
> Brian Capouch sees it within 5 years.  Opinions being what they are...
> Here is mine:
 ...
> I wish it were not so, but I think that fiber-to-the-home or even its
> cousin fiber-to-the-curb are much more than 10 years away.

In my neighborhood, they already run T-1 to the curb -- actually to
the SLC-96 buried beneath the curb a couple of blocks from here.  In
the bundle of cables that feed the SLC-96 vault from the CO, there is
one bundle with little red plastic markers hanging from it next to
every poll.  The marker warns repair crews that the bundle contains
optical fiber!  Walking the pole line, I have followed the fiber to
where it goes underground, a block from the AT&T Bell Labs complex at
Liberty Corner!

Not exactly fiber to the home, or to the curb, but it's out there in
the street.  The conversion to copper, and to metallic base-band DC
loop technology, is available in the SLC-96 equipment.  When a service
that is of some value to ordinary comsumers (other than Bell Labs!) is
offered, the technolgy appears to be in place to deliver it.


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