The 16 port one is hardened. We can expect it to survive better in a fan vented enclosure.
All the other sfp switches I have found are pretty much for inside an air conditioned enclosure. -Louis On Oct 19, 2014 2:18 PM, "Jason McKemie via Af" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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 >> >
