----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <r...@seastrom.com>
> > Why can't the splitters be in the MMR? (I'm genuinely asking... I > > confess to a certain level of GPON ignorance). > > Sorry for being late to the party (real work and all that). > > There is no reason whatsoever that one can't have centralized > splitters in one's PON plant. The additional costs to do so are > pretty much just limited to higher fiber counts in the field, which > adds, tops, a couple of percent to the price of the build. Ok, see, this is what Leo, Owen and I all think, and maybe a couple others. But Scott just got done telling me it's *so* much more expensive to home-run than ring or GPON-in-pedestals that it's commercially infeasible. > More than > offset by futureproofing and not requiring forklift upgrades to add a > new technology for a few customers. Obviously the splitters should be > owned by the service provider and upstream of the mega-patch-bay for a > muni open access system. Well, I would assume the splitters have to be compatible with the OLT/ONT chosen by a prospective L1 client, no? Or is GPON GPON, which is GPON? > Meanwhile, EPON seems to be the technology that's won out on a global > basis. Might have something to do with the price - all the hooks to > support legacy ATM stuff in GPON's GEM come at a cost. :-) Hmmm. I invite you, Rob, if you have the time, to look at the Rollup and Followup posts I put out this afternoon, which are the look at this which is closest to current in time. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274
