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Local Loop Question about Smart

  • 01-05-2005 2:58pm
    #1
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,303 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi,
    A quick question; if other operators (eg; Smart) gets the local loop (which is the last bit), who pays for the rest? I mean the maintanence from the last exchange, to the satilite in Dublin?

    Would this be why Eircom are dragging their heels? Because even if they handed over the numbers to Smart, that they'd still have to pay the cost for the main infastucture part.

    Finally, if Smart give out fast lines, do the rest of us suffer? I don't know the technical backround, but if one operator uses a sh|t load of the bandwidth, won't the rest of the people connected to the last exchange suffer?

    Any answers would be nice.


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  • #2
    damien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭damien


    The Local Loop is the bit from your house to the exchange only. Smart have to also dig to the exchange for the backhaul. eircom are still payed €14.65 per month by Smart for that piece of copper as well as payed around €120 to connect your wire to the Smart equipment.


  • #3
    JNive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭JNive


    ok, if you are on eircom say, your DSL passes through your line , through the eircom equipment, through their backhaul ( localised network connecting to the national fibre grids etc. ) and to the internet.

    If on UTV say ( bitstream and not LLU ) it goes through the exact same physical netwrok and equipment, ie. eircom. but support, billing, some configuration etc, is through UTV, so your service is still affected by other eircom conditions.

    If on Smart say ( LLU ) it goes along your line, and then through Smart's own equipment in the exchange, and then via their own backhaul ( completely separate fibres as eircom ) onto the national fibre rings.

    So, if on Smart, its users dont effect those on eircom equipment, there is no common path between users ( in terms of having to contend with specific bandwidth )


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