> 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 for everyone. > > -- > Dan White >
At my previous job we were deploying a hybrid system - a mix of active and PON depending on the requirements of the customer. For the active systems it wasn't homerun fiber back to the main CO - we had a nice ring of fiber to key locations in the City and then we would place a ped where the spurs would connect to. Top that off with a CISCO Wireless Mesh overlay and no matter what speed and mobility you needed you could get it somehow... Our only limit (at the time I left) was upstream to the Internet. --Scott
