ONT's are sub $30. Put 200 subs on the chassis and see what your overall cost is. You'll save about $7k. Also ZTE is 2 cards at 16 ports per card. 32 total PON ports.
Regards, Chuck On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Jon Langeler <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] <[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 > >
