{"id":1213,"date":"2006-03-08T12:13:39","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T12:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discovery.org\/tech\/2006\/03\/08\/fiber_is_the_future_but_dsl_is\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T21:57:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T21:57:48","slug":"fiber_is_the_future_but_dsl_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/2006\/03\/08\/fiber_is_the_future_but_dsl_is\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiber is the future. But DSL is now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T, BellSouth and Verizon are pursuing radically different approaches in the quest to deliver real broadband to the American home.  With capital expenditure concerns in mind, AT&amp;T and BellSouth are extending fiber to the the neighborhood.  There will be a large market for this type of broadband until sometime in the next decade.  Verizon has made the decision to bring fiber directly to its customers&#8217; premises.  Many naysayers are highlighting the challenges confronting Verizon (see, e.g., &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB114178362044392106.html\">Verizon Hits Hurdles in Big Bet on New High-Speed Network<\/a>&#8221; in today&#8217;s <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>).  But they ignore that the costs of laying fiber are decreasing rapidly and will be approaching that of DSL later this decade.  Verizon&#8217;s optical network will be mostly installed and paid for when its major rivals scramble to extend and re-engineer their own antiquated DSL architectures sometime during the next decade.<br \/>\n<em>George Gilder analyzes the potential of DSL and fiber in the March 2006 edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gildertech.com\/\">Gilder Technology Report<\/a> (&#8220;The VDSL2 Silicon Slalom&#8221;) ($). <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T, BellSouth and Verizon are pursuing radically different approaches in the quest to deliver real broadband to the American home. With capital expenditure concerns in mind, AT&amp;T and BellSouth are extending fiber to the the neighborhood. There will be a large market for this type of broadband until sometime in the next decade. Verizon has made the decision to bring fiber directly to its customers&#8217; premises. Many naysayers are highlighting the challenges confronting Verizon (see, e.g., &#8220;Verizon Hits Hurdles in Big Bet on New High-Speed Network&#8221; in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal). But they ignore that the costs of laying fiber are decreasing rapidly and will be approaching that of DSL later this decade. Verizon&#8217;s optical network will be mostly installed<a class=\"ellipsis article-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/2006\/03\/08\/fiber_is_the_future_but_dsl_is\/\"><span> Read More &rsaquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"coauthors":[105],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadband"],"acf":[],"author_names":["George Gilder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1213"}],"wp:action-assign-author":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}