On Jan 31, 2013, at 13:57 , Fletcher Kittredge <fkitt...@gwi.net> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: > If you have an MMR where all of the customers come together, then you > can cross-connect all of $PROVIDER_1's customers to a splitter provided > by $PROVIDER_1 and cross connect all of $PROVIDER_2's customers to > a splitter provided by $PROVIDER_2, etc. > > If the splitter is out in the neighborhood, then $PROVIDER_1 and $PROVIDER_2 > and... all need to build out to every neighborhood. > > If you have the splitter next to the PON gear instead of next to the > subscribers, > then you remove the relevance of the inability to connect a splitter to > multiple > OLTs. The splitter becomes the provider interface to the open fiber plant > > Owen; > > Interesting. Do you then lose the cost advantage because you need home run > fiber back to the MMR? Do you have examples of plants built with this > architecture (I know of one such plant, but I am hoping you will turn up more > examples.) > I don't know of any. Yes, it would eliminate part of the theoretical cost savings of the PON architecture, but the point is that it would provide a technology agnostic last mile infrastructure that could easily be used by multiple competing providers and would not prevent a provider from using PON if they chose to do so for other reasons. Owen
