30mbps Fiber Optics: Coming to your home in 2005..

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-07-20 02:14pm

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Verizon Communications has stepped up its battle against cable operators
with plans to debut a broadband-over-fiber service later this summer.

The service, called Fios, will be launched in Keller, Texas, and later parts of
southern California and Florida, the company said Monday. At up to
30mbps (megabits per second), Fios is a quantum leap compared with
Verizon's DSL (digital subscriber line) service, which runs at a maximum of
1.5mbps.

Fios can reach these speeds because it's based on fiber-optic lines that
serve Internet access at a much higher clip than the traditional copper
wires that support DSL.

Verizon also unveiled plans to sell cable television over the speedy Fios
connection in 2005, boosting its strategy of offering customers a triple pack
of services--voice calls, video and broadband--sold at discounted prices if
purchased in a bundle. Cable operators have been using their own "triple
play" strategy for several years to woo customers away from Verizon and
the three other regional Bell operating companies

The launch of Fios opens a new front in a war between the Bells and the
cable industry. Both sides are trying to lure the millions of Americans who
are upgrading from slow dial-up services to speedier broadband
connections. Cable leads in overall broadband market share, but the Bells
have kept pace largely through aggressive DSL discounts and promotions.

Some of the Bells, such as Verizon and SBC Communications, see fiber as
an answer to their problems. The Federal Communications Commission
plans to allow the Bells to invest in fiber without requiring them to share
their infrastructure with third parties, as is the case with copper wire
networks. For many years, the Bells have protested that the line-sharing
rules on copper wire networks are unfair, because cable companies are not
required to share their lines.

Of the four Bells, Verizon is considered the furthest along with its fiber
plans. It reiterated on Monday its goal of reaching 1 million homes and
offices by the end of the year, with a third coming from expansion in
Huntington Beach, Calif.; Tampa, Fla., and the Dallas-Fort Worth areas.

"Fiber from Verizon is coming down their streets and heading straight for
their doors, and the excitement in these communities is building," Paul
Lacouture, president of Verizon's network services group, said in a
statement.

Fios will be only slightly more expensive than Verizon's DSL plans, even
though it will be much faster, and Verizon will supply the modems needed
to make the switch to fiber, a company representative said.

A 2mbps to 5mbps Fios connection will cost $35 a month if purchased along
with Verizon's local and long-distance telephone service. The service will
cost $40 if purchased alone. A connection of up to 15mbps is available for
$45 a month if purchased as part of the same telephone service bundle, or
$50 alone. The company did not reveal pricing for the 30mbps plans.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-07-20 03:46pm

30Mbps makes the Internet splooge.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-07-20 03:46pm

Ooh fun! I wonder what kind of ping I can get on a Japanese Quake3 server with that 30M Super Phatpipe?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-07-20 03:47pm

I wonder how much it'll cost.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-07-20 05:52pm

whats the point? with Cox digital i can already download porn faster than i can watch it. Granted this new thing vs. cable/dsl may be akin to the concorde vs a 747, however dsl/cable vs dialup was like a 747 vs the pony express. That was an earth shattering difference. Whats the point of another 'quantum leap' if you really don't need it or cant reap much benefit from it unless you want to upload your entire hard drive in under an hour?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-07-20 06:09pm

Well eventually the rest of the hardware will catch up to the 30 mbps speed, and I'd really like that speed since often times I download gigabytes of files at once. The extra speed would make all that so much faster.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2004-07-20 06:13pm

Col. Crackpot wrote:whats the point? with Cox digital i can already download porn faster than i can watch it.

Now you can watch 6 high-quality streaming porn channels at the same time.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2004-07-20 06:22pm

whats the point? with Cox digital i can already download porn faster than i can watch it. Granted this new thing vs. cable/dsl may be akin to the concorde vs a 747, however dsl/cable vs dialup was like a 747 vs the pony express. That was an earth shattering difference. Whats the point of another 'quantum leap' if you really don't need it or cant reap much benefit from it unless you want to upload your entire hard drive in under an hour

Because realtime Video Calls(As least from my experiance) require roughly twenty two megabits of bandwidth to be jerky/jaggy free, IE not webcam quality but CNN HDTV quality looking and thats for an 480x320 screen for bigger(Like 800x600) your going to need even more bandwidth

One possible application right there

DaveJB · Post by **DaveJB** » 2004-07-20 06:26pm

Yay! With any luck it'll be available in the UK by around 2017!

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-07-20 09:43pm

Col. Crackpot wrote:whats the point? with Cox digital i can already download porn faster than i can watch it. Granted this new thing vs. cable/dsl may be akin to the concorde vs a 747, however dsl/cable vs dialup was like a 747 vs the pony express. That was an earth shattering difference. Whats the point of another 'quantum leap' if you really don't need it or cant reap much benefit from it unless you want to upload your entire hard drive in under an hour?

Maybe with that gigantic amount of bandwidth available, they won't give a shit if you host a dinky little web server on your pipe. (something some ISPs are pretty goddamn anal about)

TempestMagister · Post by **TempestMagister** » 2004-07-20 09:58pm

Well, I can see this being very handy for hardcore online gamers. I know that for games like Desert Combat, everyone playing with cable modems, the game still lags periodically. I see no problem with this, the only thing being that usually the advertised maximum speed is hardly attainable by many people, including myself. I have Optimum Online cable and the fastest I have ever went is around 1.2 MB/s, when the speed had been advertised for much higher.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2004-07-21 12:33am

Yay! With any luck it'll be available in the UK by around 2017!

Isn't much of Europe going with Wi-Fi to avoid the difficulties of laying high-speed cable through its rather, uh, history-laden cities?

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-07-21 02:45am

You mean like HDTV was adopted all over the US in 2003? I'll believe it when I see it....

Archaic` · Post by **Archaic`** » 2004-07-21 07:59am

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Ooh fun! I wonder what kind of ping I can get on a Japanese Quake3 server with that 30M Super Phatpipe?

*Chuckles* Probably not quite as quick as you think. At least by relative speeds anyway. Our "Hikari Fiber" is 100mbps, going from 4800yen a month and up.

Deaths Construction · Post by **Deaths Construction** » 2004-07-21 09:11am

I should hold off on getting that 10mb business connection I was planning on... This should hopefully be cheaper...

Oh well.

When all else fails blame the server!

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2004-07-21 07:42pm

aerius wrote:
Col. Crackpot wrote:whats the point? with Cox digital i can already download porn faster than i can watch it.
Now you can watch 6 high-quality streaming porn channels at the same time.

[Marty McFly]Back when I was your age, if I wanted to watch two channels at once, I had to get two sets...[/Marty McFly]

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-07-22 08:19pm

With a 30Mbps pipe you can start delivering other content like HD over fibre, better VoIP service and a few other things. In addition, much of the US telecom grid is already fibre; it's the "last mile" that is still copper.

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30mbps Fiber Optics: Coming to your home in 2005..

30mbps Fiber Optics: Coming to your home in 2005..

gesh, maybe