Was it done with E-Rate money? Is the service provider managing the internal network? Maybe this is their MTU architecture.
From: Nate Burke Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 10:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Indoor GPON - Why? If the Desktop NIC can talk directly to the PON, that totally makes sense. But why run PON to the wall/Cube just to terminate into RJ45 that you still have to power? And you're still going to have Wifi AP's/VoIP handsets that will require power at the endpoint (one could argue, at every desk that has a PON connection), which unless they have some magic, I don't think can be powered via Fiber. Tellabs seems to be pushing PON to the Wall, I haven't seen any mention of PON to the desktop in the literature (the little that I looked at on the Tellabs site). I understand how a proposal can be presented so that that the 'suits' will be really impressed to near wetting themselves with $1000's of savings, but from an actual usage standpoint, I seems like it still has some hurdles to overcome. Remember, this is a corporate LAN environment, where you control everything down to the Users PC experience, not a BYOD to plug into a PON. On 6/23/2015 10:26 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: PON to the desktop would only have active gear in the NOC and in the device. Everything between is passive. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Nate Burke" mailto:[email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 10:16:36 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Indoor GPON - Why? But Why? I understand Long haul PON for FTTH, to conserve miles and miles of trunk fiber, but why in a building? Instead of having a single device (a switch) you now have active hardware all over the building to manage and maintain (And power). On 6/23/2015 10:08 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: PON looks to be where people are going for fiber to the desktop. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nate Burke" mailto:[email protected] To: "Animal Farm" mailto:[email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 9:49:14 AM Subject: [AFMUG] Indoor GPON - Why? We just had a new public library built here in town. The entire LAN infrastructure is built on PON using the Tellabs ONT's. http://www01.tellabs.com/products/tellabs1100ont.shtml I've briefly looked around their site, and read some case studies, but Why would you choose PON infrastructure in a single building? From what I can tell, you still have to run CAT 5 to the ONT for power, and the 4 port units (which I saw several around the library) have a wall-wort and a power switch. I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the concept, other than someone make a slick presentation, and someone else got a nice payoff. I wouldn't be surprised of the Latter, every single 120v outlet in the building is a 20A duplex receptacle with USB Ports (~$30 each)
