Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Fletcher Kittredge
Randy; Pricing aside, do you feel the Japanese have a good architecture for the last mile? Would it adapt well from an environment that is mostly multi-dwelling units (MDU) to one which is mostly single-dwelling units? Any thoughts on good places to start for an english language speaker to

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Fletcher Kittredge wrote: Pricing aside, do you feel the Japanese have a good architecture for the last mile? Would it adapt well from an environment that is mostly multi-dwelling units (MDU) to one which is mostly single-dwelling units? Any thoughts on good places to

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:58:48 CST, Will Clayton said: enable the masses to communicate and, at the same time, appease, for lack of a better word, those who would capitalize on the sheer lack of unified infrastructure. The same way we appeased them the *last* time we gave them incentives to

RE: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Rod Beck
Abrahamsson [mailto:swm...@swm.pp.se] Sent: Wed 12/2/2009 1:35 PM To: Fletcher Kittredge Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: FTTH Active vs Passive On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Fletcher Kittredge wrote: Pricing aside, do you feel the Japanese have a good architecture for the last mile? Would it adapt well from

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Jack Bates
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: You might look into what's being done in Sweden then, here there are municipality networks who dig up the streets and does fiber to the individual house in suburbia (you have to trench your own land though, 4dm deep, 1-2dm wide, they only dig in the street put down

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Curtis Maurand
You might look into what's being done in Sweden then, here there are municipality networks who dig up the streets and does fiber to the individual house in suburbia (you have to trench your own land though, 4dm deep, 1-2dm wide, they only dig in the street put down the pipe in your trench).

RE: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Mackinnon, Ian
-Original Message- From: Curtis Maurand [mailto:cmaur...@xyonet.com] SNIP I'd look more to what they're doing in Rochester, NY: http://rocwiki.org/Sewer_Fiber_Optic_Network Run it in the sewers. The sewer system runs to every building and household in the municipality. No

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Fletcher Kittredge
Thanks for the pointers, Mikael. unfortunately, my Swedish is not much better than my Japanese... But it is a good start and I am sure I will find some sort of English description somewhere. I should have been a bit more explicit in my question: I am not concerned on the routing of the last

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Michael Holstein
I'd look more to what they're doing in Rochester, NY: http://rocwiki.org/Sewer_Fiber_Optic_Network Run it in the sewers. The sewer system runs to every building and household in the municipality. No need to re-trench anything. Ahh .. the TISP : http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Curtis Maurand
Mackinnon, Ian wrote: snip In the UK more homes have fixed wire telephony than mains sewers or water. Not sure what that means to this discussion :-) In the US as well, but if you're trying to run a new fiber network and you want it uderground, the sewers in metro areas are a good place to

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Fletcher Kittredge wrote: Thanks for the pointers, Mikael. unfortunately, my Swedish is not much better than my Japanese... But it is a good start and I am sure I will find some sort of English description somewhere. Here is a cut/paste of the thing run thru google

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Fletcher Kittredge wrote: Thanks for the pointers, Mikael. unfortunately, my Swedish is not much better than my Japanese... But it is a good start and I am sure I will find some sort of English description somewhere. Here is a cut/paste of the

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Another issue - how far does the technology support open access/infrastructure sharing/wholesaling? Not only are networks that get public funding likely to be expected to provide these, but there is evidence that they are important financially. Benoit Felten's presentation at eComm Europe

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Delian Delchev
Very much it depends on the case. In price perspective Active Ethernet is cheaper (for the active equipment) for both CAPEX and OPEX. Also it is reacher in features. Just for comparison 2.5Gbit G-PON solution cost about the same as reasonable 10Gig FTTH active ethernet solution. If you do

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Delian Delchev
Generally Ethernet itself support in the last years natively Openaccess. But first you need to answer to youself what type of Openness you want? Open Access on Layer3 level? As it is made by the ADSL L3 LLU? If so, then both Active and passive FTTH Ethernet are absolutley ready for it. Every

RE: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Holmes,David A
by homeowners' insurance. -Original Message- From: Michael Holstein [mailto:michael.holst...@csuohio.edu] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 8:34 AM To: Curtis Maurand Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: FTTH Active vs Passive I'd look more to what they're doing in Rochester, NY: http

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Randy Bush
Pricing aside, do you feel the Japanese have a good architecture for the last mile? Would it adapt well from an environment that is mostly multi-dwelling units (MDU) to one which is mostly single-dwelling units? Any thoughts on good places to start for an english language speaker to learn

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread Justin Shore
Luke Marrott wrote: I'm wondering what everyones thoughts are in regards to FTTH using Active Ethernet or Passive. I work for a FTTH Provider that has done Active Ethernet on a few networks so I'm always biased in discussions, but I don't know anyone with experience in PON. Active is the way

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread Dan White
On 01/12/09 10:43 -0600, Justin Shore wrote: Active is the way to go. Passive is merely a stepping stone on the way to active. Passive only makes sense (in some cases) if you are 1) fiber poor and 2) not doing a greenfield deployment. If you have the fiber to work with or if you are

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Justin Shore jus...@justinshore.com wrote: Luke Marrott wrote: I'm wondering what everyones thoughts are in regards to FTTH using Active Ethernet or Passive. I work for a FTTH Provider that has done Active Ethernet on a few networks so I'm always biased in

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Dan White wrote: However, there are some advantages to GPON - particularly if you're deploying high bandwidth video services. PON ONTs share 2.4Gb/s of bandwidth downstream, which means you can support more than a gig of video on each PON, if deploying in dense mode. You

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread JC Dill
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: You don't need to supply more than a gig per household, 640K ought to be enough for anybody. (oft mis-attributed to Bill Gates) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates If, 10 years ago (1999) when most internet-connected homes still used dialup, you had

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, JC Dill wrote: If, 10 years ago (1999) when most internet-connected homes still used dialup, you had suggested that ISPs would be putting in gigabit services to homes, people would have laughed. Yet today, here we are talking about gig feeds. I wonder how much bandwidth

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Byron Hicks bhi...@ots.utsystem.edu said: 4k video feeds (the new High Def): compressed: 1Gb/s ?? Current over-the-air HD (at a max of 1080i) is up to 19 megabits per second (and most don't run it that high). Most cable systems compress it more. 4k video is roughly 8

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread Michael Holstein
I wonder how much bandwidth homes will be using 10 years from now... 100% of it (if you let us). Cheers, Michael Holstein Cleveland State University

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread Byron Hicks
These were the numbers presented at an Internet2 meeting about the 4k testing happening between UCSD and UW. I'm not sure what compression algorithm they were using for the test. On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Once upon a time, Byron Hicks

RE: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread Deepak Jain
If, 10 years ago (1999) when most internet-connected homes still used dialup, you had suggested that ISPs would be putting in gigabit services to homes, people would have laughed. Yet today, here we are talking about gig feeds. I wonder how much bandwidth homes will be using 10 years from

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread Justin Shore
Dan White wrote: All valid points. Deploying a strand to each customer from the CO/Cabinet is a good way to future proof your plant. However, there are some advantages to GPON - particularly if you're deploying high bandwidth video services. PON ONTs share 2.4Gb/s of bandwidth downstream, which

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread Paul Wall
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Dan White dwh...@olp.net wrote: All valid points. Deploying a strand to each customer from the CO/Cabinet is a good way to future proof your plant. I would argue that every customer is entitled to duplex fiber. Drive Slow, Paul Wall

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread James Bensley
I'm wondering why despite all this comparatively magical speed increase we have seen over the last decade, with 10 times better on the horizon, we the customer ever get a 1:1 speed ratio? -- Regards, James ;) Charles de Gaulle - The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread Dan White
On 01/12/09 14:33 -0500, Paul Wall wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Dan White dwh...@olp.net wrote: All valid points. Deploying a strand to each customer from the CO/Cabinet is a good way to future proof your plant. I would argue that every customer is entitled to duplex fiber. In

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread bmanning
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 02:33:20PM -0500, Paul Wall wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Dan White dwh...@olp.net wrote: All valid points. Deploying a strand to each customer from the CO/Cabinet is a good way to future proof your plant. I would argue that every customer is entitled to

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread Scott Brown/Clack/ESD
You could deploy 2 or 3 strands and get more bandwidth to the customer, using perhaps less expensive hardware, or you could maintain fewer strands in the ground and depend on equipment manufactures to maintain an adequate growth in bandwidth capabilities. Neither approach is going to work

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread Chris Hills
On 01/12/09 20:06, Byron Hicks wrote: These were the numbers presented at an Internet2 meeting about the 4k testing happening between UCSD and UW. I'm not sure what compression algorithm they were using for the test. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/09/super_hi_vision.html The

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread Jared Mauch
On Dec 1, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Paul Wall wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Dan White dwh...@olp.net wrote: All valid points. Deploying a strand to each customer from the CO/Cabinet is a good way to future proof your plant. I would argue that every customer is entitled to duplex fiber.

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread Randy Bush
actually, the killer here is PMTU... there is almost no way to effectively utilize the BW when the MTU is locked to 1500 bytes. and the reality, e.g. ntt b-flets, is often pppoe v4-only, which is lower. randy

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread Will Clayton
Now just imagine that people inside the big firewall could tell you how they engineered multi-gig FTTTVs. At the risk of sounding like a politician I will actually state that the physical/private interest topology of the fiber network in the United States is incredibly prohibitive of the advances

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread Randy Bush
At the risk of sounding like a politician I will actually state that the physical/private interest topology of the fiber network in the United States is incredibly prohibitive of the advances that you guys are talking about. The big picture here is table scraps to equipment manufacturers no