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Verizon: FiOS Access For Other ISPs in the Works

Posted by timothy on from the fiber-to-the-premises-win-the-argument dept.

Ant writes "According to Broadband Reports' story, 'Verizon has confirmed the claim made by a DSLExtreme representative here last week that the company has plans to offer other ISPs access to its new fiber-to-the-premises network.' A Verizon spokeswoman is quoted as saying, 'A couple of deals have already been signed and more are in the works.'"

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  1. Fiber is great by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: -1, Troll

    because you can use quantum cryptography on the transport OSI layer (unlike electrons in copper, photons in fiber show quantum effects that you can exploit to have 100% secure channel). This is the most important advantage of fiber networks, and it is also the most interesting one. For anyone who has no time to read essays by Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Max Born, Paul Dirac, Wolfgang Pauli and others, I recommend starting from A Lazy Layman's Guide to Quantum Physics by James Higgo, but you should really read at least some papers by Planck, Bohr and Schrödinger as soon as possible. It was not clearly stated in the article but in fact the quantum cryptography is one of the most important features of fiber networks that make them so exciting these days.

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    Sincerely,
    Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
    "Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
  2. Nice-Junior Bait. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    "I hate paying for hosts and all that just to have a presence on the web."

    Darn all those experienced web hosting companies.

    "Unfortunately the residential service my current Cable Modem provider offers doesn't allow any servers being exposed to the public. "

    YAY! Windows for everyone!

    "It's only a personal site so I don't know what the big deal is really. "

    Just wait till EVERYONE has one, and you'll find out.

    "I can see if it was commercial, but man they are rough."

    So's a slashdotting.

  3. Notice that they don't call it FTTH by zymano · · Score: 0, Troll

    If they named it FTTH then you would expect the appropriate speeds . I am talking 100 megabits/sec. Are they trying to 'dupe' rich middle class internet users ? I think so.

    Extremetech article on Verizon's $ 44.95/month , 15mbits . And $39.95 for 5megabits/sec downloads.

    Is this comparable to FTTH,Fiber To The Home ? Nope.

    Thats why we need to keep 'PUBLIC SUPPORT' for 'Municpal FTTH' which is real broadboand and not the name hijacked variety.

  4. Re:The two ISPs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Michael Jackson may be happy about that...