On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Leo Bicknell <bickn...@ufp.org> wrote:
> In a message written on Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 08:27:27PM -0500, Jay > Ashworth wrote: > > You're assuming there, I think, that residential customers will have > > mini-GBIC ports on their routers, which has not been my experience. :-) > > They don't today because there is no demand for such a feature. My > point is that if people deployed FTTH in this way, there would be demand > for such products. Many of the chipsets inside these boxes already > support SFP PHY, they just don't put an SFP connector on them to save a > couple of bucks. If there was demand vendors would have a product out > in months not years, probably within $10 of current prices (not counting > optics). > > Calix is producing an Active Ethernet ONT combined with residential gateway router. I believe it also supports TR-069 for remote management. One other thing I noticed, most seem to assume a pair of fibers per device. Assuming 1G connection, you can easily use bi-directional optics such as we use for Active Ethernet and use a single fiber.
