Skogsgurra
Electrical
- Mar 31, 2003
- 11,815
I visited a meeting about "fibre to the peasants" yesterday evening. It was arranged by the county telecom and internet officer and community IT manager. The purpose was to make us decide to invest in fiber. And to do it before April 15th. Which is very close in time.
To do so, we were supposed to form a group and do the digging and put tubing for the fibre from our local telephone station to as many as possible of our wide-spread dwellings. Our village consists of a central "core" with something like 30 houses in a distance less than a mile from the telephone station and then a sparse collection of houses spread out over an area with three or four miles radius.
My questions are:
1. What experience do you have from similar projects?
2. What technologies are there? We do have copper wire ADSL, which is giving us anything from 3.5 to a little better than 200 kb/s. Depending on distance from the telephone station.
3. What technologies can be expected in the next five years? Radio? Satellite? Better (higher rate) copper utilization? Other?
4. Improvements in "fiber tapping" technology, so that individual houses can tap into existing long distance fibers?
5. What alternatives are there to digging ditches? Putting fiber on power lines? (telephone lines may be a bad choice if telecom companies or copper thieves decide to remove the line) Or going to cellular radio systems for short distance coverage?
6. How necessary do you think that a 100 Mb/s connection is? I am satisfied with my 100 - 200 kb/s connection. I can wait a few seconds before a document is loaded. No probs for me. But, then again, I do not watch streaming video or play games with heavy graphics.
7. Any other views and experience that you have?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Gunnar Englund
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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.
To do so, we were supposed to form a group and do the digging and put tubing for the fibre from our local telephone station to as many as possible of our wide-spread dwellings. Our village consists of a central "core" with something like 30 houses in a distance less than a mile from the telephone station and then a sparse collection of houses spread out over an area with three or four miles radius.
My questions are:
1. What experience do you have from similar projects?
2. What technologies are there? We do have copper wire ADSL, which is giving us anything from 3.5 to a little better than 200 kb/s. Depending on distance from the telephone station.
3. What technologies can be expected in the next five years? Radio? Satellite? Better (higher rate) copper utilization? Other?
4. Improvements in "fiber tapping" technology, so that individual houses can tap into existing long distance fibers?
5. What alternatives are there to digging ditches? Putting fiber on power lines? (telephone lines may be a bad choice if telecom companies or copper thieves decide to remove the line) Or going to cellular radio systems for short distance coverage?
6. How necessary do you think that a 100 Mb/s connection is? I am satisfied with my 100 - 200 kb/s connection. I can wait a few seconds before a document is loaded. No probs for me. But, then again, I do not watch streaming video or play games with heavy graphics.
7. Any other views and experience that you have?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Gunnar Englund
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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.