Chambers of Commerce Demand a Universal FTTH system In Ireland Costing €2Bn

eircomtribunal · 20-02-2006 3:18pm

watty wrote:

The MANs are pointless, a solution looking for a problem. No small user connectivity and no backhaul in the plan. They would only be useful for high speed B2B in a SINGLE town. Most Internet /data connectivity is in/out of a town not around it.

If each MAN had high speed backbone connection (none do) and a cabinet connected at each street it passed to interconnect with existing phone pairs and cable TV coax, then it could bypass the exchange and cable head ends. But it wasn't designed to do that. The MANs where the silliest comms idea for a country with non-existent user connectivity. It was adressing the wrong problem.

You could not have said it more concisely. All the usage that can and will possibly be gained from the MAN's should never blind us to the fundamental flaw of same.

P.

oscarBravo · 20-02-2006 9:11pm

Blaster99 wrote:

Isn't that CIE fibre actually owned by BT?

Both CIE and BT have fibre running along the railways.

Zaphod · 07-03-2006 5:41pm

There is another opinion piece in today's Irish Times by Seán Murphy of Chambers again arguing for a universal FTTH system (cost of €2bn) and he draws a comparison to Government infrastructural investment in Ardnacrusha in the 30s and Rural Electrification in the 50s.

On the front page of the same paper, there's a story of how the National Pensions Reserve is awash with money (increase of €2.4bn in 2005) and that the commission has "a strong desire to invest in PPPs" and domestic infrastructure projects.

Does Seán Murphy have their number?