Universally exists, greatly exceeds quality standards or otherwise greatly exceeds “fair” standards. “fair” Available Abundant Reliable Affordable Sustainable DSL Good ADSL is a very Fair Fair to Poor Excellent Generally poor broadband Generally reliable Monthly costs Uses existing available. solution. VDSL when DSLAM has are generally twisted pair Availability within path diverse and good. Cost per infrastructure. limited by reasonable redundant Mbps is poor. distance from distance of a connections. DSLAM. DSLAM is a good broadband solution. Fixed Good Good Poor Fair Good Generally Reliability suffers Monthly costs Relatively low Wireless available. from congestion are generally cost deployment. Availability on aggregation good. Cost per limited by line of points and Mbps is poor. issues and service Wireless services distance from degradation typically have the tower sites. resultant from highest cost per weather Mbps of last mile conditions. solutions. Cable Poor Good Fair Good Poor Available in some Capacity is often New more dense degraded by deployments are areas. Not over-subscription capital intensive usually available at hub sites. and unlikely. in rural areas. Reliability suffers Deployments on from existing shortcomings in infrastructure are broadcast reasonably easy. network design Poor. Excellent Good Where fiber to Fair Very little last Only if designed the premises has High cost to mile exists in for redundancy. been deployed, deploy but once the south central monthly costs it is in place fiber Colorado area. are very good to has a long excellent. In expected life particular, the cycle and low cost per Mbps is operating costs. excellent.
Universally exists, greatly exceeds “fair” quality standards or otherwise greatly exceeds “fair” standards. Available Abundant Reliable Affordable Sustainable DSL Good Generally available. Availability limited by distance from DSLAM. ADSL is a very poor broadband solution. VDSL within reasonable distance of a DSLAM is a good broadband solution. Fair Generally reliable when DSLAM has path diverse and redundant connections. Fair to Poor Monthly costs are generally good. Cost per Mbps is poor. Excellent Uses existing twisted pair infrastructure. Fixed Wireless Good Generally available. Availability limited by line of issues and distance from tower sites. Good Poor Reliability suffers from congestion on aggregation points and service degradation resultant from weather conditions. Fair Monthly costs are generally good. Cost per Mbps is poor. Wireless services typically have the highest cost per Mbps of last mile solutions. Good Relatively low cost deployment. Cable Poor Available in some more dense areas. Not usually available in rural areas. Good Fair Capacity is often degraded by over-subscription at hub sites. Reliability suffers from shortcomings in broadcast network design Good Poor New deployments are capital intensive and unlikely. Deployments on existing infrastructure are reasonably easy. Poor. Very little last mile exists in the south central Colorado area. Excellent Good Only if designed for redundancy. Where fiber to the premises has been deployed, monthly costs are very good to excellent. In particular, the cost per Mbps is excellent. Fair High cost to deploy but once it is in place fiber has a long expected life cycle and low operating costs.
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