Laying fiber optic cable -- when?

The way I see it, at least for my home, wireless is just a temporary
situation until it makes sense to run fiber.
(Will continue to have some limited wireless for mobile devices: laptops,
PDA phone, etc.)

I'm to lazy to run ethernet cable throughout my house, but fiber would make
sense...

But when? Fiber was supposed to have replaced everything except power lines
"Any Day Now" for decades! I remember reading articles about it in the
1980's!

What is the holdup?

On 5 Mar, 19:44, "Bill Kearney" <wkearne...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > The way I see it, at least for my home, wireless is just a temporary
> > situation until it makes sense to run fiber.
>
> Then it'll be never. *Fiber inside the home isn't a good idea, nor is it
> necessary. *Why? *Basically because it's fragile and expensive to terminate
> (the outlets and the cables).
>
> Fiber to the premise makes more sense. *The wires are pretty much fixedin
> place and aren't going to be screwed around with.
>
> But inside the house or office? *No way, it's just not worth the hassles and
> expense. *Not now and not likely ever.

It looked like a good idea to some people in the mid 90's
when wired ethernet was limited to 10M. For sure a few
people did put it in. I am almost sure I heard of an
investment bank in London that did fibre to the desk.
Then we got 100M Ethernet and the need vanished.
Now of course 1G on copper.

As I understand it - *very* limited - this is still baseband
signalling (oh maybe 1G is not quite) so prepsumably
if broadband techniques were used then that rate could
go up a lot (by orders of magnitude). Of course the encoding
delay goes through the roof, just depends on what you want.

1G seems to be sufficient for todays applications. In many
cases propadation delay dominates application performance.

Well we now have 10G over copper apparently, I have never
seen a 10G port of any kind though.

"Bill Kearney" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> The way I see it, at least for my home, wireless is just a temporary
>> situation until it makes sense to run fiber.
>
> Then it'll be never. Fiber inside the home isn't a good idea, nor is it
> necessary. Why? Basically because it's fragile and expensive to
> terminate (the outlets and the cables).
>
> Fiber to the premise makes more sense. The wires are pretty much fixed in
> place and aren't going to be screwed around with.
>
> But inside the house or office? No way, it's just not worth the hassles
> and expense. Not now and not likely ever.

I guess what I'm thinking is one fiber cable could be used for everything:
LAN, internet, TV, phone, video, music. Who knows what that would lead to.
Devices could start using all that smartly merged together...

If fiber were mass produced, wouldn't that cause the price to come down?

I'm imaging decades from now when every house could be a (HD)TV broadcast
"studio"...

On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:27:31 +0000, Mark McIntyre
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>bc20 wrote:
>> I guess what I'm thinking is one fiber cable could be used for everything:
>> LAN, internet, TV, phone, video, music.
>
>I have TV, phone, LAN, internet and music all over ethernet cable under
>my floors.
>
>> Who knows what that would lead to.
>> Devices could start using all that smartly merged together...
>
>Bwahahah. That depends on the manufacturers stopping from using
>proprietary interfaces. which will be when hell freezes over, or
>cellphone makers agree on a standard connector for their chargers.

You're right to be skeptical, but here is yet another such
announcement, like similar others that have come before:
"Standardized Cell Phone Chargers Are On Their Way"
http://sustainablog.org/2009/02/17/s...-on-their-way/