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Originally Posted by Pierre
That's as maybe, but if you're hooked up as I think you are, you'll know that the voice over cable project is being pushed from one angle.
But the engineering experts in Access, the real ones, hate it. They'd much rather go for using MSANS to deliver VoIP amongst other things. We could still utilise the twisted pair infrastructure and not overload the HFC.
I don't think it's a done deal yet.
I don't know anyone that really enthuses about voice over cable.
Anyway, we'll see.
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Each VoIP call only needs 64kbps and relatively few punters use their landlines now so you'd hope it won't make a huge dent in the HFC.
MSANs are another active piece of powered kit in the network and one that'll need battery backup. They make perfect sense to sell business services and indeed FTTP on but unsure how good they are for residential areas passed by HFC.
The costs of installing a whole bunch of new cabinets would be non-trivial, unless VM could persuade customers to allow them to rip out the old transport network and replace it with MSANs in the same street furniture though that's perhaps a bit of a tough sell and Ofcom would be all over VM over the outage period.
It's tricky. There're not really many examples to follow as hardly anywhere else has any twisted pair at all in their cable network.
The mothership are quite enthusiastic about getting rid of the PSTN. Whether this happens via PacketCable or more active kit is I guess different. Both get rid of BT Wholesale.
The angle I heard is all geared up to PacketCable both for VoIP and future projects. It's essential in order to transfer to an all-IP network which, with DOCSIS 3.1 and whatever follows after, is where the company will end up being with video delivered by 100% IP multicast.