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Originally Posted by roughbeast
So, why are they bothering? They can achieve 300Mb with fibre to the node and coax to the premises. Why bother with fibre along the street unless they are expecting something different going forward.
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This is known as Fibre Deep Node+0. Node plus zero additional amplifiers, leaving only those in the node.
Which means:
- Reduced power requirements and savings.
- Eliminates the cost of periodically replacing the amps.
- Cuts the expense of maintaining the amps.
- Reduces network failures due to amps.
- Enables extended spectrum and Full-Duplex.
- Everything moving forward requires only changes at the node and headend now, making remote PHY in the future much easier. Each new node may become its own Service Group in the end.
The bonus is that 50% of the new nodes for 4 million homes being FTTP means a hell of a saving on power bills.