The Palo Alto Fiber to the Home Trial

11/24/99


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The Palo Alto Fiber to the Home Trial

Topics

The Setting: Palo Alto

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The Setting - Problems

Origins of the Palo Alto FTTH Project

Palo Alto Fiber Network

Palo Alto Fiber Network Goals

A Simple Plan

Why Fiber to the Home?

Consumer-Level Internet Access Technologies vs. Year

Cost of Construction vs. Year of Construction

Why Now?

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Typical Pole to Home Wiring

FTTH Trial Costs 10 Mb/s Service to 100 Homes

Per-User Capital Cost vs. Participation Rate

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Financial Model For the Trial

Marketing Results

Timeline for FTTH in Palo Alto

Hurdles (and how we passed them)

Lessons Learned

Fiber Choice: Current Costs vs. Long Term Flexibility

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Open-Network Challenges

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Summary

Thanks to...

References

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Consumer-Level Internet Access Technologies vs. Year

Detail of Costs for Services

Expected Results of the Trial

Why Ethernet?

Author: poulton

Email: poulton@labs.agilent.com-nospam.com