If Comcast said, "I can get you a 10Gbit connection, it's fiber all the way, but it's going to end as an SFP port at the pole/wiring closet, and you have to take it from there."
I would have thought homeowners and businessowners alike would spend the money to upgrade their own "infra" to make that work, rather than something like this. Obviously AL thinks there's a market here, it just seems like such a waste.
Wiring isn't under control of the home/business owner until it hits their NID, which is already on-prem. Getting the connection to the NID is where the expense is, and it's why AL is putting money into the process. Without this, someone has to spend the thousands of dollars pulling permits/digging trenches to run fiber to your house.
I guess I don't understand why you need this much tech just to get the fiber off the pole and into my house [1].
The coax drop from Comcast drapes off the pole, hits little more than a barrel connector on the side of the house, and then comes straight in the house and plugs into the modem.
I would have thought homeowners and businessowners alike would spend the money to upgrade their own "infra" to make that work, rather than something like this. Obviously AL thinks there's a market here, it just seems like such a waste.