They both have their place. In high density, GPON is a great way to go. If you have your splitters in a neighborhood cabinet that can later house active gear, you can upgrade to active at any time. Saves money in the dense areas. Not so much in not dense areas. That presumes you are buying telco grade gear. If you are cobbling your own system with media converters etc then AE electronics will always be cheaper.
From: Forrest Christian (List Account) via Af Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 11:20 AM 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 ?
