Comments on: Lay It Yourself Fiber http://www.ftthblog.com/lay-it-yourself-fiber The world is getting wired with fiber. Tune in for daily updates on the business and technology of fiber to the home. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:28:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Lay It Yourself Fiber by: olsen http://www.ftthblog.com/lay-it-yourself-fiber#comment-80100 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:47:22 +0000 http://www.ftthblog.com/lay-it-yourself-fiber#comment-80100 It involves digging on your own property and laying the conduit so that the crew can simply install the fiber from the road to your house. Lyse delivers the conduit at your door, and you have to have it dug and ready within 14 days. Indoor work is also part of the self-install. Savings are aprox US$420 (not US$630). US$630 is what you pay if you don't do any work yourself. It involves digging on your own property and laying the conduit so that the crew can simply install the fiber from the road to your house. Lyse delivers the conduit at your door, and you have to have it dug and ready within 14 days. Indoor work is also part of the self-install.
Savings are aprox US$420 (not US$630). US$630 is what you pay if you don’t do any work yourself.

]]> Comment on Lay It Yourself Fiber by: FGF http://www.ftthblog.com/lay-it-yourself-fiber#comment-80088 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:56:50 +0000 http://www.ftthblog.com/lay-it-yourself-fiber#comment-80088 The article leaves unclear exactly what network elements are part of the self install option. The wording "lay the last part of the network" certainly seems to imply fiber installation, but I'm hard pressed to think it could mean anything more than perhaps mounting an Optical Network Terminal, bringing household power to it and connecting to inside wiring (by itself a fairly onerous task but not quite $630 worth). Surely people aren't installing conduit and pulling fiber beneath their lawns. Are they? The article leaves unclear exactly what network elements are part of the self install option. The wording “lay the last part of the network” certainly seems to imply fiber installation, but I’m hard pressed to think it could mean anything more than perhaps mounting an Optical Network Terminal, bringing household power to it and connecting to inside wiring (by itself a fairly onerous task but not quite $630 worth). Surely people aren’t installing conduit and pulling fiber beneath their lawns. Are they?

]]> Comment on Lay It Yourself Fiber by: Stéfan http://www.ftthblog.com/lay-it-yourself-fiber#comment-79938 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:35:20 +0000 http://www.ftthblog.com/lay-it-yourself-fiber#comment-79938 Interesting idea. One point is unclear in the article : "Apart from saving money, subscribers who lay the fiber themselves feel that they own that part of the infrastructure." They feel they own the infrastructure, but do they actually own it ? Or does it belong to the operator. I think it's an important point : if the infrastructure belongs to the customer, it means opening it to other operators should be possible. It also raises issues about managing and maintaining all these little parts of infrastructure, if they belong to multiple owners... Interesting idea. One point is unclear in the article : “Apart from saving money, subscribers who lay the fiber themselves feel that they own that part of the infrastructure.”

They feel they own the infrastructure, but do they actually own it ? Or does it belong to the operator. I think it’s an important point : if the infrastructure belongs to the customer, it means opening it to other operators should be possible. It also raises issues about managing and maintaining all these little parts of infrastructure, if they belong to multiple owners…

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