Sounds like he is re-feeding an active cabinet with a PON + a splitter in the cabinet. We have done this exact thing several times, the UPC connector in the cabinet has no negative effect.
On Tue, Oct 6, 2026 at 12:45 AM Josh Luthman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Usually OLT optics are UPC. What are you plugging in to? > > Customer side is APC though. > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2026 at 8:27 PM Jason McKemie > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thanks everyone. >> >> I'm converting it for better and more unified management/monitoring as well >> as elimination of a powered cabinet in the field. >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 5, 2026, 4:22 PM Nate Burke <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I don't have any PON in the field, only Active, but I'm curious why >>> you're converting your active network to a PON network? Network >>> Management? Future Scalability with existing fiber? What's driving the >>> switch. I'm genuinely curious. >>> >>> On 10/5/2026 3:53 PM, Jason McKemie wrote: >>> > I have an active optical network that I would like to convert to PON. >>> > Unfortunately, the connectors at the cabinet are all UPC. Am I asking >>> > for a headache if I connect those customers via an APC to UPC cable vs >>> > re-splicing everything at the cabinet? The lengths from the cabinet to >>> > the customer locations are all less than a mile. I'll be splicing on a >>> > new APC connector at the customer locations. >>> > >>> >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
