I'm surprised you are bothering with UBNT when a platform like ZTE is significantly more stable. Cheaper too.
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 6:35 PM Jason McKemie < [email protected]> wrote: > The Calix active stuff is $$$$$ though, especially when you do the CSFP > modules. Something like the Ignitenet Fusionswitch fiber and Fiberstore > bidi SFPs is much more reasonable. I can sacrifice 1RU per 24 customers > for that kind of price difference. > > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 4:06 PM, George Skorup <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> If I were you, I would take a serious look at GPON shelves like ZTE and >> Calix. CSFP modules let you put two BiDi AE customers on a single slot. 24 >> port line-card = 48 AE customers. Then I think you can do 8 or 16 port PON >> cards, 1:32 split = 256 or 512 customers on a single 3U? 4U? chassis, + the >> 48 AE customers. This is probably what we're going to end up doing with the >> AE deployment we're managing now. The AE is extremely underutilized and it >> should've been GPON from the get-go. >> >> If you're doing BiDi now and all the customers home-run to your cabinet, >> put the GPON splitters at the cabinet. Cake walk. Same boat we're in. >> Except some retrofit because they used a PAIR per customer. And Clearfield >> built everything duplex LC. So one strand won't get used in the field. Big >> whoop. Call the unused one a backup. I love it when nobody listens to me. >> Coulda started BiDi and went right to GPON with minimal changes. >> >> On 7/31/2017 3:29 PM, Sterling Jacobson wrote: >> > Ok, so that is the share ratio then. >> >> >> >> If I put on 18 customers on a port they would all share the 2.5 down by >> 1.25 up. >> >> >> >> Or if I use 8 instead 4 of the UBNT Fiber OLT I can get 9 customers on >> that ratio. >> >> >> >> That would be 8 U plus 4 U space, which I think is probably my max amount >> of rack space in the cabinets I am using right now. >> >> >> >> That is likely a lot less power than the 12U of 48 port switches I can >> use right now, but the share ratio is obviously much worse in the long run. >> >> >> >> Maybe I do a Hybrid and put 4 of the OLT, and still have 4x48 ports >> active… >> >> >> >> Then in the future if I run into clients complaining about their 1Gbps >> rate plan not being fast enough on the share ratio of 1 to 18, I can move >> them back to 1 to 1 active. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On >> Behalf Of *Mike Hammett >> >> *Sent:* Monday, July 31, 2017 2:22 PM >> >> >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] UBNT OLT Transition from Active Ethernet to GPON >> >> >> >> GPON is 2.5 downstream 1.25 upstream per port. >> >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> >> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> >> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> >> Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> >> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> >> >> >> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> *From: *"Sterling Jacobson" <[email protected]> >> *To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> *Sent: *Monday, July 31, 2017 3:19:36 PM >> >> >> *Subject: *[AFMUG] UBNT OLT Transition from Active Ethernet to GPON >> >> Anyone tried their PON OLT CPE and OLT 8 port (128 clients per port) 1U >> unit? >> >> I see pricing around $70 retail for OLT, but haven't seen pricing yet for >> the OLT 1U unit. >> >> Also, I'm active fiber right now, so I have full 1 to 1 panels in the >> rack already. >> >> If I wanted to 'migrate' to OLT from active I would need some sort of >> transition panel/setup right? >> >> Right now my density is 48 ports per 1U 1 to 1 single family home >> connections. >> >> The UBNT Fiber OLT has 8 ports handling up to 128 clients each, with >> 20Gbps uplink capability (not quite sure on those split details yet). >> >> I currently only take a max of 576 per cabinet on active, so I could >> easily use just one of these UBNT fiber OLT units. >> If I don't care about the share ratio I guess, I would just get another >> 576 panel count that spliced 72 count to each port and I'm done. >> >> I'm unclear what that panel/splice would look like though since I've >> never actually done GPON. >> >> And I would probably want to not load up that many per port, and instead >> maybe get four of the UBNT Fiber OLT units. >> That would take up 4U of rack space, the fanout would probably still take >> up 4U of rack space, for a total of 8 U. >> And I would have instead an 18 customer to 1 port on the GPON instead of >> 72 which I like better for future use. >> >> Do these UFiber OLT 1U rackmount units share just 1Gbps per each of the 8 >> ports? That would only be 8Gbps needed total. >> So I assume the GPON spec they are using can transmit more than that per >> each of the 8 GPON ports, right? >> >> -- Regards, Chuck
