Going towards faster broadband gaming: Verizon lays fiber !

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Verizon lays out plans for fiber network

Posted 05/20/2004 @ 2:00 PM, by Eric Bangeman

Verizon laid out its plans to challenge cable companies Thursday, stating that they plan to begin offering video over fiber optic lines to consumers as early as 2005. Initial products will be on par with traditional cable and satellite TV, but the bandwidth available in fiber networks will eventually allow them to push through other offerings.

"We have a huge opportunity," Paul Lacouture, Verizon's president of network services, told Reuters. Fiber optics "allows us to get beyond parity with cable and get to a video product that will be different from the traditional 150 channels on cable and satellite." The largest U.S. local phone company outlined the plans as part of its strategy to spend $1 billion on laying the foundation for a fiber optic network connecting homes and businesses in nine states. The company has committed to making the new network available to one million homes and businesses by the end of the year, with another two million added next year.

By the way, if you are one of the lucky three million, you will also be able to get DSL with speeds of up to 30Mbps.

Plans call for the high-speed DSL service to come online by the end of this year, with the additional video services to follow some time in 2005. As we reported last week, the larger US telcos are planning on laying fiber networks, a necessary move if they hope to compete with cable providers for not only high-speed 'Net access and video offerings, but for telephony services as well. Verizon is leading the pack at this point, but expect SBC, Qwest, and other regional incumbent telcos to make similar moves.
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http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1085079647.html
 
Wonder if hasbrouck heights new jersey will be some of the 3 million. Heh we don't even have dsl here yet. Had to get cable. Only broadband option
 
It'll be easier and less expensive for them to roll it out in major metropolitan areas with high population density.

*cough* NYC *cough*

:)

I'll let you guys know how my 30MB connection is working out when I get it. As if I'll ever see those speeds.
 
we don't even have an option of dsl yet. Its nuts . Everyone around here has cable which is why my uploads suck so much.
 
Natoma said:
That's what you get for living in the boonies :)
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DOn't know what you'd need that connection for. YOur a chicken and a liar thats what you are . To scared to play people in farcry. You don't even deserve dial up .
 
Natoma said:
I'll let you guys know how my 30MB connection is working out when I get it. As if I'll ever see those speeds.
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Only way to justify the capital outlays for FTTH is to be able to bundle video with it. So if they want to sell you video services, including HDTV channels, they better deliver those speeds.
 
nAo said:
Well..I'm on fiber right now :) 100 Mbit/s (90 Mbit/s devoted to video..)
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How does the bandwidth allocation acutally work if you have video and data over the same fiber?

HDTV video takes at most about 20 Mb/s. Does that mean they could have allocated 25 Mb and that should have covered HD and SD?

What happens if you have a dual-tuner HD PVR and it's accessing two HD channels at once? Would that mean you would need 40 Mbps?

If there are several TVs in the household, could it access enough different channels that your data service suffers? Or you just can't tune into any more channels if you reach that 90 Mbps allocation for video?
 
we are starting up Digital TV with the VDSL rollout here in Belgium.

(12mbit down/2up)

i think i will be a betatester .. fun times ahead! 8)
 
wco81 said:
How does the bandwidth allocation acutally work if you have video and data over the same fiber?
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Allocation is static.

HDTV video takes at most about 20 Mb/s. Does that mean they could have allocated 25 Mb and that should have covered HD and SD?
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Sorry.here no HDTV :)

What happens if you have a dual-tuner HD PVR and it's accessing two HD channels at once? Would that mean you would need 40 Mbps?
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Yes

If there are several TVs in the household, could it access enough different channels that your data service suffers? Or you just can't tune into any more channels if you reach that 90 Mbps allocation for video?
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You can access a lot of channels at the same time...a single channel takes about 2-5 Mbit/s I believe.

ciao,
Marco
 
Natoma said:
That's what you get for living in the boonies :)
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I'm not the gay black man in a chicken suit handing out fliers down by the local kfc now am I !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111 ;)
 
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