Our reason for looking into it is heat and power. We may have 300+ customer coming into a single cabinet. We will be laying the fiber for active but if we can save on space by not needing 300+ sfp ports plus battery backup for all those switches.
We are looking at the Planet switch which has 16 SFP ports. If we use GPON that is 16 SFP ports * 32 customers per port = 512 customers instead of only 16 customers per switch! To do active we would need 19 switches! -Louis On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) via Af <[email protected]> wrote: > To slightly hijack this. What is the fascination with gpon? > > From what I can tell, cabling a plant for active is dirt cheap and is future > proof. > > Gpon isn't. > > On Oct 19, 2014 1:04 AM, "TJ Trout via Af" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> How far away are we from seeing a gpon olt sfp module that would be >> mikrotik compatible? Would be nice to use a ccr 12s and be able to serve >> hundreds of customers. Seems like we aren't real close though ? -- -Louis NTInet O: 803-533-1660 X 207 C: 803-997-0004
