I saw ZTE starting at $2k plus. How is that cheaper? Also is the management via 
CLI?

Jon Langeler
Michwave Technologies, Inc.


> On Aug 1, 2017, at 8:36 AM, Chuck Hogg <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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]] 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
>>>> 
>>>> Midwest Internet Exchange
>>>> 
>>>> The Brothers WISP
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
>>>> 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

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