[1st-mile-nm] ILSR: Burlington Telecom FTTH Case Study

[Richard Lowenberg]

The following is forwarded from another list, as posted by Bill St.Arnaud,
of the CANARIE project in Canada.   The Institute for Local Self Reliance,
also produced the earlier report: Localizing the Internet: Five Ways
Public Ownership Solves the U.S. Broadband Problem, which can be found on
the ILSR.org web site, or on the Resources pages of the 1st-Mile site.
Richard
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[For any community that is looking to deploy a community fiber
network, I highly recommend taking a look at this study on the Burlington
project.   Although the Burlington network bills itself as an "open
access" network, its network architecture, like that in Amsterdam is built
around home run fiber, terminating on GPON at the central office. GPON is
used to reduce interface costs only, so at a future date if a customer
wanted layer one connectivity to a given service provider and bypass the
PON altogether then it would only require a simple fiber patch. This
provides for a future proof architecture as new technologies and business
model evolve. Thanks to Frank Culuccio and Tim Nulty for this pointer --
BSA]

Burlington Telecom Case Study
Christopher Mitchell, Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative
christopher at ilsr.org | August 2007

<http://www.newrules.org/info/bt.pdf>