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The Seattle BB task force report should come as little surprise:
http://www.seattle.gov/btt/docs/BBTF_draftreport_041905.doc
The report fits with teh prejudices of the chair and group memebers but it
is not unreasonable given the current state of WBB development. I disagree
with the fiber optic centric distortion of reality that 25 Mbps per user
bandwidth will be needed or the rather limited and prejudiced viewpoint that
'one size fits all' rather than a more holistic viewpoint. Can we say
'Brain Dead legacy way of doing things'? Can't blame special interests from
wanting to protect their home turfs through a politcal organ but they could
have opened up the dicussion beyond their self-appointed clic of so-called
experts: experts mostly at understanding where things have been imo.
Anyway, the results may be for rolling out more fiber optic and making it
more available.. at least that is what the report suggests. And they
include an opinion that hybrid networks can make sense - even though they
prescribe a limited role. Brain Dead thinking prejudice.
Roll out fiber to agnostic Ethernet terminated nodes and let 'the best man
win' in providing whatever service the market wants. If the public wants
FTTP and is willing to pay the high cost for bandwdith that delivers
unavilable services and connections to Internet servers that slow down that
fat pipe, so be it. Isn't this a free enterprise system and representative
form of government we are supposed to be living under? Then let the
community decide what they want and not let it be dictated by brain-dead
legacy attitude farts. Fiber to the node is the way to go. This article
points out the reality of cost prohibitive fiber optic:
FTTR: Fiber to the Rich?
Comcast chief taunts bell IPTV, redlining
Comcast's CEO Brian Roberts brushed off bell IPTV efforts yesterday, be they
via ADSL2+, VDSL, or fiber. ""I don't know whether they really have a
business model to go and bring all of that investment and to be the fourth
or fifth provider with no differentiation in service. I really don't
understand it yet," says Roberts. The CEO also criticized bell redlining
(deploying to largely affluent areas), saying "legislators and regulators
are going to decide, `Is it fiber-to-the-home or fiber to the rich?'"
But if people can afford it then let them have FTTP/H or ten fibers to the
home. that's free enterprise. Or let them have fiber to the node to within
a mile of every home or less. then you can provide WiFi or WiMAX or
WiWhatever or GiGe.. whatever someone is willing to spend risk capital
putting in and users are willing to buy. The City of Seattle should have
taken the enlightened attitude to make access widely available using an
extended fiber optic network while enviting existing service providers and
new ones plus community efforts to participate on equal footing.
Seattle - the land of legacy communications thinking years behind South
Korea, Tokyo/Japan, India, China, Singapore, and some places just creeping
out of the technology dark ages. What should we have expected?
Robert (Bob) Syputa
Senior Analyst, Maravedis Telecom Research
www.maravedis-bwa.com
206-367-6931
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