Per Jessen wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> about it. Around here it's the electricity companies promoting > fibre, > > I didn't know you could use fibre to carry electricity. ;-)
Yes, they are using the new kind with the holes.
It is primarily a legal/cost issue. Power companies have the right-of-ways to install the cable (and the labor force).
So do the telcos, but I think they saw fibre as being too expensive whereas the existing copper could be reused for VDSL at very little cost.
I don't know where you are,
About 15min outside Zurich, Switzerland.
but around here, both phone and cable companies moved to fibre many years ago, as it's the only way to carry all the bandwidth necessary today.
Does that include the local loop?? I'm certain the rest of the telco infrastructure is fibre and has been for quite a while, but switching to fibre on the last mile would be a very significant investment, especially when the copper does very well up to about 20Mbit/s.
Outside of large businesses, no, though there is some. Generally it's to the neighbourhood or to large buildings with many customers.
In new developments, fibre to curb is common and also to large office, apartment & condo buildings.
I'm sure the same is the case here. I don't know what's done in apartment buildings, coz' the telephone system is certainly either ISDN or analogue. Maybe there's a big digital-to-analog converter in the basement of those apartment buildings. Three years ago, I had Swisscom put down 4 new ISDN lines for me - nobody mentioned fibre.
How it gets to you is irrelevant. The carrier may be using either fibre or copper to your building. You will likely see only copper into your home. The digital/analog conversion could be done almost anywhere, back in the CO, somewhere in your neighbourhood, in your building etc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org