On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 04:43:56PM -0800, Leo Bicknell wrote: > The only place PON made any sense to me was extreme rural areas. > If you could go 20km to a splitter and then hit 32 homes ~1km away > (52km fiber pair length total), that was a win. If the homes are > 2km from the CO, 32 pair (64km fiber pair length total) of home > runs was cheaper than the savings on fiber, and then the cost of > GPON splitters and equipment. I'm trying to figure out if my assessment > is correct or not...
Is there any specific reason why muni networks don't use 1-10 GBit fiber mesh, using L3 switches in DSLAMs on every street corner?
