Planet has a switch with 24 SFP ports, or if you don't mind spending more per port there are a few companies out there that do 48 lasers in 1u using dual bidi SFPs (Calix being one option). Still not the density of GPON, but better than your example.
On Sunday, October 19, 2014, Louis Arsenault via Af <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] <javascript:;>> 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] <javascript:;>> > 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 >
