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Houses On Stilts

As I was driving across the snow-swept Great Plains of South Dakota, roads were glazed with ice. I drove down Gulf Coast of Texas through Houston to the prettiest little island you'd ever see (Port Aransas, TX). After my short ferry ride to the island, the first thing I noticed was the houses were on stilts. Makes sense with the hurricanes and high water I'm sure that are not an uncommon occurrance there. What a beautiful and diverse country we are blessed to live in.

It got me thinking. I see that same diversity in FTTH builds. An architecture that works in a big city like Houston won't fit in extremely rural areas across the country.

I had a great meeting with an Engineering company that deploys a unique architecture for rural areas of the US. Distributed splits and unequal power taps fit well in those areas. While 1x32 splitters in Fiber Distribution Hubs rule the day in more densely populated areas.

Then I was headed to North Carolina where their pine forests remind me of home. And where I grew up, there aren't any houses on stilts.

- Jim Pilgrim

Posted 10/22/09 6:37 PM by Admin