FTTP Fear Factor

摘要

Fervor over Fiber to the Premises has the attention of many network executives who, like George Mason University's Randy Anderson, have been locked into reliance on traditional T-1 lines to outfit remote sites with high-speed connectivity. Of FTTP, Anderson, director of network engineering and technology at the Fairfax,Va., university, says: "We'd love to explore that possibility" He considers FTTP as a potential alternative to DSL, which he hasn't embraced because of its dubious track record on reliability. FTTP promises better performance and greater speed than DSL, which is delivered to the premises via copper. It will run at 100M bit/sec vs. the 1.5M bit/sec or so DSL hovers around, sources say. For corporations, proponents point to applications such as PC backup, telecommuting and high-definition videoconferencing as ripe for FTTP deployments.