From: obsnw@googlegroups.com [mailto:obsnw@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Simon
Rhodes
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:42 PM
To: Piers
Cc: The Observatory Neighbourhood Watch
Subject: Re: [obsnw] Fibre solution for Observatory
I have to concur, I received a link saying activate your accoun
I have to concur, I received a link saying activate your account here which led
to 'this page cannot be found'. I had the same enquiry regarding mweb and have
received no further correspondence! For the moment also sticking to the 10meg
which fades to 2 at best when the wind blows and it gets
Hi Colin,
You ask about the potential capacity limitations of a PON. As you can see
at, for example
http://www.sopto.com/blog/the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-pon-technology/
"...
they have less range than an active optical network, meaning subscribers
must be geographically closer to the
Thank you so much for your detailed responses Mark. Hugely appreciated.
The obvious advantage of overhead fibre is that it will be much faster (and
cheaper) to implement than trenching. However, the capacity limitation of
the PON network you mention is concerning. But I suppose as long as
I've been trying to get a fibre provider interest in our area for nearly
five years. Finally we seem to have some traction with Vumatel.
They have begun a proper feasibility study for our area, but 30% of the
households need to show interest.
The other option would be Openserve (Telkom) but
