That's fully retarded... The great thing about doing active-ethernet vs. any form of GPON or EPON is the much larger set of available equipment. Not everything you can use for active-E as necessarily designed or marketed for residential services, and that's a good thing.
GPON and EPON equipment vendors still seem like they only want to sell to huge carriers that will commit themselves to getting married to a platform for ten years, and buy a ton of it, not caring that it's proprietary. Yeah.... Stuff like 48-port 1000BaseT blades for routers you can install in MDUs and 24/48-port SFP switches are used in all kinds of places. On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 6:26 AM, Kevin Radunz <[email protected]> wrote: > They may be cheap but I inquired and they won't just give you pricing so I > don't know. > They have to "Customize" a complete solution for you. > Typical big boy sales crap with an immediate NDA before they will talk > with you. > It completely turned me off on using Alphion. > > > > Ballpark on cheap? > > > > > > > > > > ----- > > Mike Hammett > > Intelligent Computing Solutions > > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > > > > > Midwest Internet Exchange > > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Gerard Dupont III" <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 9:41:01 PM > > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Planet MGSW-28240F > > > > They're cheap and have good support. No random issues like other vendors > > we've tried. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather use calix or one of the big > > names, but I can't make the numbers work for the small wireless fed > > residential builds we keep doing. > > > > > > No they don't have a path to NG-PON2 that I'm aware of. I'm not worried > > about that right now though since we are wirelessly feeding all of the > > neighborhoods. > > > > > > On Friday, January 15, 2016, Josh Reynolds < [email protected] > > wrote: > > > > > > > > What's so great about them over other vendors? Also, do they have a path > > to NG-PON2? > > On Jan 15, 2016 9:09 PM, "Gerard Dupont III" < [email protected] > > > wrote: > > > > <blockquote> > > We're doing Alphion now. We also have Dasan and ZTE systems in place. > Plan > > on migrating them to Alphion sometime this year though. > > > > On Friday, January 15, 2016, Sterling Jacobson < [email protected] > > > wrote: > > > > <blockquote> > > > > > > > > What are you using for GPON now? > > > > I’m starting to use some of the higher density 48 port Planet switches > > in active. > > > > From: Af [mailto: [email protected] ] On Behalf Of Gerard Dupont III > > Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 7:55 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Planet MGSW-28240F > > > > We have a few of those in place for a couple years now in non climate > > controlled cabinets. This will be the third winter. We're just using > cheap > > chinese bidi optics. Some from fiberstore. Customer sides are mostly > > MikroTik 2011 or rb260gs. > > > > > > > > Had some minor issues early on but they were fixed in later l firmware. > > > > > > > > I can't remember the last time I had to touch them. They've been solid. > > > > > > > > We've moved to gpon for any new builds or I'd probably still be > installing > > them. > > > > > > > > Gerard > > > > On Friday, January 15, 2016, George Skorup < [email protected] > wrote: > > <blockquote> > > > > Derp, I forgot. What do you have on the other end of the ports? > > Routerboards with bidi SFPs? We're not sure what we're going to do on the > > CPE end yet. It's a multi party venture and those guys haven't made up > > their minds yet, other than each premise will have a pair and they want > > active ethernet. I mentioned GPON and was told no. So then I said why not > > do bidi and basically heard crickets. So whatever, I'm just in charge of > > designing the core network inside their box of requirements. > > > > On 1/15/2016 8:12 PM, George Skorup wrote: > > <blockquote> > > > > Excellent. Thanks. > > > > On 1/15/2016 8:05 PM, Craig Baird wrote: > > <blockquote> > > > > We have this exact switch in service right now with Fiberstore BiDis. > It's > > never given us any trouble. > > > > Craig > > > > > > Quoting George Skorup < [email protected] >: > > <blockquote> > > > > I'm working on a fiber project and was wondering if anyone else has used > > this Planet switch? > > http://www.planet.com.tw/en/product/product.php?id=48441 > > > > Is Planet picky about SFP modules? I was planing on ordering some cheap > > single mode modules from Fiber Store to use with this and get the project > > rolling. Such as: > > > http://www.fs.com/1-25-gbps-gige-1000base-lx-lh-1310nm-20km-dom-industrial-temp-lc-smf-sfp-transceiver-p-37258.html > > > > Already ordered the switch, so we'll see what happens. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > </blockquote> > > > > > > </blockquote> > > > > > > </blockquote> > > > > </blockquote> > > > > </blockquote> > > > > </blockquote> > > > > > > >
