PON is plant and customer density specific. With high customer counts home running a strand for each can run into scaling problems. For AE you need large distribution frames, lots of patch cables, and many SFP ports which takes up considerable space in the CO. Power consumption and heat per sub also starts adding up in the CO. Field splitting starts to get attractive at some point and PON is totally passive. PON also breaths new lift into existing fiber plants with limited strand counts although WDM can do that too. PON certainly has its place and the release of 10G x 10G XPON2 will make it more attractive.
That said we are AE on our FTTH project. PC Blaze Broadband From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Forrest Christian (List Account) via Af Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 1:20 PM To: af Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Gpon or 10g-pon sfp...when? 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 ?
