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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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It's a better investment for areas that are large-ish and not previously cabled, or due to be upgraded because of poor bandwidth / node usage.
It's not much more expensive than coaxial and may even be cheaper.
- No powered line amplifiers requiring an electrical connection, just optical splitters.
- You can run the whole existing cable network as a service over the fibre while simultaneously providing GPON, EPON or XG-PON (10Gbit up and down) over the same fibre.
So, it's ready for the future when there is more data usage, fewer live TV channels, almost everything "video" is streamed and what is today a cable box, in the future runs off an ethernet connection to your fibre termination point and your TV channels are replaced with sections of branded streaming and live content portals in the EPG.