Guessing fewer legacy costs. Unions. Starting with newer & less expensive technology. Now in 2020, Google fiber doesn't seem to be expanding much and many fiber expansions have slowed down. Perhaps the expansion will heat up again and reach new areas over the next decade. Or maybe wireless 5G will be capable of competing with fiber for many people.
Technically quite incorrect. Central offices are NOT running cable to each individual homes. It's a GPON deployment and has passive splitting. So something like 1:64 or even 1:128. Hence over 60 users all are served from single fiber and sepration is done at street level/near around blocks. Somehow report gives an impression that what they are doing is massively complex. I do appreciate their work but it's not really that complex. Part of job :)
The video is kind of dramatic.....prob a favorite for ISP executives to show major stock holders..... With GPON: -One fiber at their Central Office(or street side remote cabinet) represents 64(or more) potential customers! -Each fiber terminates on a "thumb drive" sized Converter that is only 1/2'' by 3/4'' in size! -These Converters slot in a chassis that is smaller than a pizza box and holds 16-34 slots! -This is beyond amazing if you know where we came from. Every house hold would have been FTTH years ago if we had properly regulated data. We could not get our old industry and minds away from the separation of Video/Voice/Data and it costed us. Our government throws around "CAF" money(ours) just for looks. In the US our data industry is the wild-wild-west. Why? To save the people from monopolies of big bad companies, but companies are made of people. Dear government....save your wasteful money(ours by the way) and give the customers back to their local exchanges, the ISPs will do the rest, FREE of charge to you!! The service providers that served the dense, profitable areas.....USE to be held accountable for ALSO serving the areas that where NOT as such. It was the only way a amazing technology(in its time) called the telephone reached any and every household that wanted it. In every single MAJOR city there are people IN TOWN who still to this day cannot get reliable HS-Data service with unlimited bandwidth.....let alone the out lying people. Wow, my longest youtube comment by far, sorry about that...
sounded like Google's announcement into the fiber game got Verizon nervous. I'd like to know why Google can't join in unless they "buy a phone company"... They have laid most of the backbone to the internet. & with phone & TV now over the net... guess what.
Actually at the Fiber Distribution Hub in the basement each fiber gets split 32 ways as it changes from multi-mode to single mode fiber. Still Rocket fast. This is not a knock on their service, just a technical detail not explained in the video.
YOur statement about google and fiber is bs because think of it... before fios verizon had no expertese in home internet or tv..... they just went for it.... all they used to be was a phone provider and they teamed up with direct tv to provide tv when fios did not exsist....
CABLE STILL BETTER THAN FIBER EASY TO MAINTAIN AND STRONGER AND ONLY NEED ONE CABLE TO HOME...NICE TRY TELCO FIRST IT WAS POTS, DSLAM, VRADS, AND NOW WITH FTTH PATHETIC AND EXPENSIVE
Because Google Fiber is available in one city and they have to keep prices way down to be competitive. They're not going to be able to sustain that long term. Google is testing out the market while Verizon is up and running for the long term.
@lucaslanddotcom actually clear wire uses sprint cell towers. Fios is always going to be the quickest way to communicate. Its literally infred light just blinking thousands of times per second. So in short, no wifi/clear wire and other wireless providers cant get speeds that fios can.
I was under the impression FIOS was GEpon. That is to say we skipped a step or two here. Unless the panel inside the building contained a passive splitter of some kind. I can't believe Verizon would be able to completely re-do the wire-frame to home run a fiber to every single customer prem.
Fios is not available in many states yet the billing after promo is outrageous comparatively. I want Google! They can do this all over the western hemisphere...you think?
Verizon is the best! I decided where to buy my house because of where it is! I host game servers with the 35/35 plan and make money :D Good luck to all Verizon people!
And another dumb statement, haha you only need one Fiber Cable to, to the home. Because INSIDE the fiber CABLE you can have almost any size, depending on the where is gonna be used, and for what. All from 1, 2, 8, 12, 24, 46 to 96 and up! No way any provider use more than a SM 2 Fiber to each Client/Customer, but perhaps a 46 or 96 to a Node or connection/extension box that the Customers gets connected to.
And again, LOL "DSLAM" Since when did they deliver DSLAM system line switching equipment to the homes? Holy hell that sound a bit pain, seems like you just whine with wrong facts. DSLAM is the central /node system equipment for all the DSL lines that goes out of the Main Central, then to all the customers that has different types of lines (Digital Subscriber Line) ADSL (A=Asynchronic) VDSL (V=Very High) HDSL (H=High) SHDSL (SH=Symmetric High). This is delivered over Telephone lines.
And CABLE (Coax) is also very weak like telephone cable/network cables against Electrical Magnetic Interference (EMI) which all main power grid cables produce, really depends on the sine and the voltage, but that is another discussion. Fiber Optical cable has no interference from electrical static noise since the signal is based on light with different color bands (Connection line, i.e VLAN1, VLAN2,VLAN3 etc) like the freakin rainbow brings your Internet signal. There is a wave length per band
+mattcintosh2 I think probably because of differentiation of service. Some users might need home internet, others would need business connectivity coming from separate logical paths. Putting them on all single VLAN and managing via layer 2 separation will limit their ability of different services specially those old PSTN and RF over TV coax. Everything isn't IP yet :)
In layman's terms it's because the raw fiber light signals are not the same as those found in Ethernet. The ont decodes the signals at each house from fiber to internet (and/ or voip and television).
What about 1000BASE-SX -LX -EX -ZX -BX10? Its possible to run ethernet over fiber, and a box with a duplex ST connector to copper ethernet is about $100
Belated answer, but good question. We do actually have architecture like that, called MDUs (Multi Dwelling Units - ONTs on Steroids basically) and the problem with that is if they go out for any reason, the whole building is down, whereas if each customer has one and it goes out, only one person is affected versus an entire building.
Saying "Google can't operate as an ISP unless they buy a phone company" is kind of like saying "I can't own a motor vehicle because I don't know how to assemble a car." I hire (indirectly) auto plant workers to assemble one for me. I hire mechanics to maintain and repair it. I do some of the easier maintenance tasks myself, like oil changes. There is nothing preventing Google from hiring or contracting the requisite people to build out their fiber network. Yes, it helps that Verizon is an ILEC, so can largely leverage their existing infrastructure (such as pole attachments, conduit runs, etc.) so it's somewhat easier for them, but there is nothing except maybe local exclusivity agreements (e.g., for pole attachments) to prevent Google from building out whatever they want. There's nothing really to prevent Google from leveraging some of their networking engineers to run part of their operation as an ISP. In other words, some of the statements made in your report are deeply flawed.
