On Fri, 8 Feb 2019, Chris Gross wrote:
For a lot of us, PONs are a way of life and may not even have any 100G
capable devices in our network, muchless enough to make our money on.
While you may be so "lucky" to "never really take it seriously", it is
supporting hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of homes in the US.
PON is the lifeblood if many rural communities. I'm luckily to have a
healthy mix of PON and AE operations since I'm located next to cities.
But I've met cooperatives in the middle of no where with super low
density where it's 6 people + 2 donkeys on staff. AE would never work
there, but PONs allow them cheap and available broadband options.
Unless someone wants to give enough funding to run AE to people's homes,
PONs will continue to allow many communities to have more than cellular
internet access options, if that.
PON and AE both have their strengths and weakness and make sense for
different deployment scenarios. My biggest problem with PON is that it
seems some operators build their fiber plant for PON for all deployment
cases and then it's extremely hard to back out of it and switch to AE. If
you have AE you can switch to PON fairly easily, but not the other way
around if you've put splitters in the manholes.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swm...@swm.pp.se