[Gllug] To LLU or Not to LLU?

[Christopher Hunter]

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 17:12 +0000, t.clarke wrote:
> Maybe I mis-read,  but I find it hard to believe that the infrastructure costs
> for fibre to the home are similar to those for copper.
> 
> Copper requires a cheap terminator (master socket) in the subscribers premises.
> 
> We have fibre into our premises here and it has a rather more expensive mains-
> powered NTU-type gizmo mounted on the wall.  Terminating the fibre into the
> device was from memory quite a lengthy and skilled process process compared to
> screwing a pair of wires into a faceplate connector.  

It's slightly more skilled, but modern fibre materials are very
forgiving, and the terminators can be very cheap indeed (comparable in
price to a BT master socket if you buy sufficient quantity).  It takes
me less than an hour to train a wireman to connect and terminate fibre
successfully.

C.

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