AE with two strands to every house can be done properly from the outset if somebody who knows what they're doing designs the OSP topology and pedestal/cabinet locations and specs. Sounds like it was done by people with more enthusiasm than experience and common sense. Sounds messy.
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 8:14 PM, 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> 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. >> > >
