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The reason this is available for this price in every house in the city of Zürich is because of a law that passed requiring every house to have fiber. The infras
by sschueller 5y ago
The reason this is available for this price in every house in the city of Zürich is because of a law that passed requiring every house to have fiber. The infrastructure is operated by the power and phone company and any service provider can use this fiber.
I hope the whole of Switzerland will do something similar because there are still a lot of places without good internet and fiber is quite future proof.
Home office out of a mountain cabin would be cool...
- Youden 5y agoIt's not just the city of Zürich, Adliswil has it too, at the very least. I believe Init7 leases fibre from Swisscom in other locations. My understanding is that federal law requires Swisscom to give access to its infrastructure to other companies for a fair price.
- bauruine 5y agoYes Swisscom has to lease it's infrastructure to every ISP the product is called BBCS [0] [0] https://www.swisscom.ch/en/business/wholesale/angebot/anschluesse/BBCS.html https://www.swisscom.ch/en/business/wholesale/angebot/anschl...
- samstave 5y agoGee... wouldnt it be cool if the USA paid telecoms $400,000,000,000 to build out said infra? Oh wait.. The Book Of Broken Promises: $400 Billion Broadband Scandal And Free The Net https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5839394 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...
- djdjfhsje33edh 5y agoWriting out all of the zeros in $400 billion doesn't make your point any more compelling.
- samstave 5y agoThats because my point is compelling enough
- occamrazor 5y agoMoreover almost all local power companies (e.g. ewz in Zurich) have laid fiber cables and lease them to ISPs. Most of them don’t even sell internet access directly, therefore they don’t have the same conflict of interest that Swisscom has.
- anotherboffin 5y agoI also hope all of Switzerland would do this. Downgrading from fiber to ADSL is ok, but was definitely not fun.
- sschueller 5y agoI'm glad init7 went to the government to complain about the new "fiber" Swisscom decided to deploy in some places that would make it impossible for competitors to provide full service. I am also glad the government saw that it was an anti-competitive move and blocked it.
- wyager 5y ago> fiber is quite future proof To give an example - OS2 single-mode fiber is the standard fiber for contemporary datacenter deployments and I assume also for last-mile deployments. It's super cheap (less than 20cpf for indoor cable, whereas cat7 copper is closer to 60cpf), has an insane range (a standard $25 fiber PHY can operate with a cable from 0m-10km), and has an insane bandwidth limit (it's currently used for everything from 1gbps to 400gbps). If you're wiring a home today, I would 100% use OS2 over CatN unless you also need PoE.
- oakwhiz 5y agoIf you're wiring things today and you want them to be truly future proof, run some kind of conduit from everywhere to a central location. It makes replacing broken cables easy and you can focus on just installing the relevant types of cable in locations that make sense right now.
- sidpatil 5y ago> If you're wiring a home today, I would 100% use OS2 over CatN unless you also need PoE. Won't you end up with a bunch of media converters everywhere though?
- bauruine 5y agoA dualport 10 Gbit/s SFP+ PCI-E card with an optic is like 25$ on ebay.
- Jailbird 5y agoIf you're wiring a home - wouldn't lay-people want it to look nice? Are these made with any way to hide them in walls, exposing a usable port (even if RJ-45?) Or if not - how should one think about deploying all this in a new home?
- andrewnicolalde 5y agoWhat about things like my AppleTV? I’d probably run both
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