Since there are FTTH people here and I'm mostly ignorant of such things, maybe someone can clear something up for me.
I always assumed a PON based FTTH system had a topology kind of like HFC. I expected fiber down the street with splitters, but fed by some sort of neighborhood node in a cabinet with power and electronics, fed by active EPL style fiber. Which could have redundant paths, rings, etc. so a fiber cut wouldn't take down a whole town or multiple towns, the backbone traffic would reroute. I've been told this is not the case. And that instead, each PON could go back over a strand to a headend several towns and many miles away, all passive. Sorry for the poor description of my question, hopefully you can figure out what I'm asking.
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