The 260GS has the Rx power level with the latest FW, and can do as much speed as you need. I'm doing AE, and wouldn't want to do PON with my deployment. I was using the outdoor Occam ONTs for the first several customers, and honestly I prefer managing the Mikrotiks since I'm not going to pay for Calix's management system. The installation is also simpler since I can do PoE to the 'tiks. Customers don't really mess with them since they're outside. You also cannot beat the price. Just sayin'.
On Tuesday, August 16, 2016, George Skorup <geo...@cbcast.com> wrote: > Mainly because customers can't keep their hands off of the RB2011. And all > we really need is a copper GigE demarc. I agree with Josh. I want to stay > away from something as simple as a media converter-like device. Managed is > preferred so we can keep an eye on Rx power levels, etc. And an outdoor > NID/ONT-like device is easier for the contractor grunts to understand. > > I'll explain a little bit of the long story. We got involved in the > project well after the planning stages, fiber was already in the ground. > They had no idea what they were doing. The network owner got sold (more > like pushed) into doing AE by, lets call them intellectual, theory oriented > know-it-alls. You know, because it's more better, everybody will get a full > gigabit... on a RB2011 that will do 400Mbps at best and wireless that isn't > worth shit. I said, OK if that's what you want, that's fine. We can do bidi > and put on twice the number of customers vs two-strand. You got 288 in the > ground, we can connect 288 customers. Nope. Clearfield built them a couple > HUNDRED pre-terminated duplex drop cables and a couple dozen peds designed > for it. > > FML is all I have to say. If it was up to me, it'd be GPON. > > On 8/16/2016 9:30 PM, Jason McKemie wrote: > > I've been using the RB260GS in an ONT enclosure. Also has a SFP cage. Any > reason you need something natively outdoor? > > On Tuesday, August 16, 2016, George Skorup <geo...@cbcast.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','geo...@cbcast.com');>> wrote: > >> Is anyone aware of an outdoor active ethernet NID? I see some stuff from >> Adtran, Calix, etc, but it's all BiDi/WDM optics. Problem is, all of this >> existing stuff is pre-terminated fixed duplex LC (they cannot be split). >> Long story. >> > >
