Scarpozzi
Lifer
Looks like BellSouth big off more than they could chew... From the DSL
reports newsletter:
> BellSouth Cut "Fiber" Speed More Than 80% Originally shipped 10/10,
> cut to 1.5/384K BellSouth has installed perhaps a million lines of
> "fiber to the curb," but hasn't connected the users at speed. I've
> now discovered, talking to a former Reltec engineer, that the
> original systems were designed with 10 mbps upstream and down to each
> home (ordinary ethernet). However BellSouth chose to downgrade the
> speed to a tenth of what the system was designed for. My assumption
> is they didn't want other customers complaining about their
> relatively slow speeds.
>
> Brent Fowler of BellSouth writes "The initial Fiber to the Curb
> (FTTC) data offering utilizes Ethernet (10Mb/s) from the ONU to the
> customer's house. The Ethernet was provisioned over two pairs in the
> copper drop. In addition to voice and data, this FTTC product also
> provides video service. BellSouth's refers to this architecture as
> Integrated Fiber in the Loop (IFITL). This system was utilized as
> part of our FTTC overbuild initiative, resulting in BellSouth passing
> about 180,000 homes with this architecture.
>
> After the IFITL overbuild deployment, BellSouth changed the data
> delivery strategy from the ONU to the house from Ethernet to ADSL for
> various reasons. The product currently being deployed utilizes ADSL
> data delivery from the ONU to the customer's house over the same pair
> as the telephone line. Ultimately, as bandwidth requirements
> increase, BellSouth will migrate to utilize other DSL delivery
> strategies from the ONU to the house (i.e. ADSL2+, VDSL)." 2004
> technology means that 10/10 should be 50/30 or higher. That speed
> costs less than $100/line, dropping rapidly, and can be delivered
> simply by adding new line cards to the existing
> Reltec/Marconi/AFC/Tellabs gear BellSouth has in the field.
reports newsletter:
> BellSouth Cut "Fiber" Speed More Than 80% Originally shipped 10/10,
> cut to 1.5/384K BellSouth has installed perhaps a million lines of
> "fiber to the curb," but hasn't connected the users at speed. I've
> now discovered, talking to a former Reltec engineer, that the
> original systems were designed with 10 mbps upstream and down to each
> home (ordinary ethernet). However BellSouth chose to downgrade the
> speed to a tenth of what the system was designed for. My assumption
> is they didn't want other customers complaining about their
> relatively slow speeds.
>
> Brent Fowler of BellSouth writes "The initial Fiber to the Curb
> (FTTC) data offering utilizes Ethernet (10Mb/s) from the ONU to the
> customer's house. The Ethernet was provisioned over two pairs in the
> copper drop. In addition to voice and data, this FTTC product also
> provides video service. BellSouth's refers to this architecture as
> Integrated Fiber in the Loop (IFITL). This system was utilized as
> part of our FTTC overbuild initiative, resulting in BellSouth passing
> about 180,000 homes with this architecture.
>
> After the IFITL overbuild deployment, BellSouth changed the data
> delivery strategy from the ONU to the house from Ethernet to ADSL for
> various reasons. The product currently being deployed utilizes ADSL
> data delivery from the ONU to the customer's house over the same pair
> as the telephone line. Ultimately, as bandwidth requirements
> increase, BellSouth will migrate to utilize other DSL delivery
> strategies from the ONU to the house (i.e. ADSL2+, VDSL)." 2004
> technology means that 10/10 should be 50/30 or higher. That speed
> costs less than $100/line, dropping rapidly, and can be delivered
> simply by adding new line cards to the existing
> Reltec/Marconi/AFC/Tellabs gear BellSouth has in the field.
