If you were talking about layer 2 handoffs, your statement is perhaps even more untrue - active ethernet and PON layer 2 handoffs are approximately as easy as each other.
-r PS: The word is _conflating_, not _confounding_. Scott Helms <khe...@zcorum.com> writes: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Robert E. Seastrom <[[r...@seastrom.com]]> > wrote: > > Scott Helms <[[khe...@zcorum.com]]> writes: > > > In that case its even harder. Before you even consider doing open > > access talk to your FTTx vendor and find out how many they have > done > > using the same architecture you're planning on deploying. Open > access > > in an active Ethernet install is actually fairly straight forward > but > > on a PON system its harder than a DOCSIS network. > > Categorically untrue. It is all a matter of where the splitters are > placed. > > > > > > You're confounding the layers of the network or perhaps I was being unclear > that I was talking about Layer 2 handoffs. > > > > A home run fiber plant architecture with an enormous patch > frame and > splitters provided by the open access provider if PON is their > technoogy of choice is indistinguishable from an active ethernet > install from an open access perspective. > > > > > > Again, I was speaking about Layer 2 open access. > > > > -r > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Scott Helms > Vice President of Technology > ZCorum > (678) 507-5000 > -------------------------------- > [[http://twitter.com/kscotthelms]] > --------------------------------