{"id":340,"date":"2004-07-04T07:38:20","date_gmt":"2004-07-04T07:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2004-07-04T07:38:20","modified_gmt":"2004-07-04T07:38:20","slug":"fiber_to_the_home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"Fiber to the Home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/homes\/build\/jul04\/240954.asp\">Stanley Miller&#8217;s article<\/a> on SBC&#8217;s Oconomowoc fiber to the home project (Paved over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ie=ISO-8859-1&#038;q=%22pabst+farms%22&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">Pabst Farms<\/a> new developments only) provides a useful look at what&#8217;s possible, if the monopolistic telco&#8217;s ever are motivated to provide reasonable internet speeds (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ie=ISO-8859-1&#038;q=japan+korea+broadband&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">Japan and Korea<\/a> already have very large scale, inexpensive deployments at these speeds).  We in the tech industry refer to these type of projects as demoware.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/isen.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/telcordia-study-ilec-fttp-feasible.html\">David Isenberg reviews<\/a> an interesting recent study (May, 2004) by Telcordia and Sanfor Bernstein (investment houses) called Fiber: Revolutionizing the Bell&#8217;s Telecom Networks.  The study claims that fiber to the premises (FTTP) would reduce (by 30 to 90%!! the telco&#8217;s operating expenses (in other words, pay for itself over time, vs. the high costs of maintaining their aging copper networks.   Interesting reading.<br \/>\nThis is a critical economic development issue. Unfortunately, our politicians seem to have their head in the sand on this (SBC status quo lobbying helps, no doubt).   I mentioned this issue to then candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisgov.state.wi.us\/\">Jim Doyle<\/a> at a pre election debate:  &#8220;SBC&#8217;s telco stranglehold on Wisconsin is a major economic development problem&#8221;   He replied (paraphrased); &#8220;you&#8217;re right, but we have other economic problems to address first&#8221;.  I think he has this wrong.  True high speed bi directional connectivity opens up enourmous new business opportunies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Miller&#8217;s article on SBC&#8217;s Oconomowoc fiber to the home project (Paved over Pabst Farms new developments only) provides a useful look at what&#8217;s possible, if the monopolistic telco&#8217;s ever are motivated to provide reasonable internet speeds (Japan and Korea already have very large scale, inexpensive deployments at these speeds). We in the tech industry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}