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Ignitionnet · 19-02-2011, 08:23

Chrys it's very relevant how many customers are on the port - that's what decides what most of the costs per customer are on a cable network as most of the costs are fixed infrastructure costs which have to be spread between a cohort of customers.

Spend 10k on a line card and optics for 200 customers you've rather higher 'fixed' costs per customer than spreading it between 500 - this is what the economics are based on as far as node sizes and service groups go.

19-02-2011, 08:23	#127
Ignitionnet Inactive Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire Age: 48 Posts: 13,995	Re: giganews (usenet) Chrys it's very relevant how many customers are on the port - that's what decides what most of the costs per customer are on a cable network as most of the costs are fixed infrastructure costs which have to be spread between a cohort of customers. Spend 10k on a line card and optics for 200 customers you've rather higher 'fixed' costs per customer than spreading it between 500 - this is what the economics are based on as far as node sizes and service groups go.