We are a FTTH cable company. We havebeen using RFOG for the past 5 year. The original system is HFC butfiber is cheaper ($), lasts longer, more attractive to buyers, and hasthe ability to reach 153Gb (SONET) with conventional gear? Especially attractive for us because we can run 7km long drops, here in rural Wisconsin it is not uncommon for our drops to be 2500'. Our RFOGsystem uses 4-42mhz up stream (1310nm) and 54-1000 down (1550nm). Wehave only filled the first 750mhz with channels and we currently offermore HD than Charter! We offer 100mb internet packages over DOCSIS 3the fastest in Wisconsin for residential homes. Our per home served (not passed) cost is below $1200. Every FTTH system is a littledifferent, some fit into the PON category and some don't. Right nowthere is basically 3 forms of FTTH; RFOG, SONET, and Ethernet. Thatalso sums up the three dominate technologies in the world. Ethernetis the future, it is wildly excepted and cheap. It is often refereedto as Metro-Area-Networking or expanded WAN cell companies call it 3g. SONET is legacytelephone technology and very very expensive. RFOG is CATV HFC without the hard-line. They just use mini-nodes and RG6 instead ofhard-line coax and taps. We have long term plans to become a full Ethernetsystem (5 year in the future). That would allow us to offer IP Set-top boxes, cool features and be an all IP network. Right know we are tothe untrained eye a cable-system. Our boxes are Motorola DCH's ourinternet run over cable modems. House wiring is coax. To get to thehouse is all fiber, there is a OTN or DSLAM cabinet in each neighborhood. Weput one cabinet per 256 buildings. Not business, not residences,buildings. In the OTN's there is both Ethernet and CATV technology.If you are a small business or a residential customer you will get acable modem. If your are a real business needing real service we giveyou a Ethernet connection. We currently run up to 1gb over a singlefiber to business customers. RFOG is also over a single fiber. We have yet tobe asked for a 10g connection but we could offer it. I hope this helps, if you have anyquestions email me at djackson(at)merr.com
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