On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 11:11 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 10:37:02 pm Christopher Chan wrote:
>> On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 03:11 AM, Ben McGinnes wrote:
>>> The even more horrendous problem, which is so pervasive it affects
>>> everyone, is the insistence on asymmetric connections. Even when
>>> Australia does get this fabled fibre-to-the-home, it still won't be
>>> symmetric. *sigh*
>>>
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>> Fibre connections that are not symmetric...sure going out of the way that.
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> Not really, once you realize that more optical power is required for greater bandwidths at the same distance. It is rather safer and less expensive at the CPE to have a broad receiver and a narrow transmitter. Fiber still obeys power density rules. Not to mention that passive splitting of the downstream and driving with high power lasers couple with either Raman or Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers saves money for the carrier.
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> And there is of course single fiber RX/TX muxing, where the upstream is DWDM on a 1550nm window wave at a low power, and the downstream is a high power 1310nm single wave, or CWDM even. Running a dedicated fiber pair to each customer is expensive; CATV fiber supertrunk digital systems are well-tested at high (>+30dBm optical) powers and are much less expensive for the carrier, meaning they are much less expensive for the subscriber, too. Even if they *are* oversubscribed.
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> While it is easy to believe in an 'asymmetric/no servers/ I got all the content/ mwahahaha!' conspiracy, simple economics and physics explain most of the reasons that oversubscribed high bandwidth downstream coupled with less oversubscribed low bandwidth upstream is the norm for consumer links. Even fiber.
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> Or would you prefer paying kilobucks per month for a tariffed OC3/12/48 or Gigabit provisioned Metro E? (that's all I can get, and it does cost kilobucks to get it).
Is this residential? One can get 1G symmetric fibre from HKBN for less
than 30USD/mnth if you live in a block of apartments. See below. (Please
note troll hat on my head)
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FibreHome 1000 Basic Plan
- installation fee waiver
‧ Basic monthly fee $199
‧ Contract duration 24 months
‧ Maximum bandwidth (local access) 1000Mbps Upload/Download
‧ Maximum bandwidth (overseas access) 20Mbps Upload/Download
‧ Installation fee $0
Basic Gifts
4 UA Movie Vouchers (Apply to online registration only)
NOD32 Anti-virus software(Worth: $238)(Apply to online registration only)
Successfully register to this plan and install FibreHome1000 Broadband
Service on or before December 31, you will be entitled to receive the
gifts for free.
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As for my current location, I guess I can get the same if I am willing
to pay for the cable laying...
*takes off troll hat*
ps: Thanks for the info on long distance fibre tech.