In a message written on Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 03:22:20PM -0600, Stas Bilder wrote: > Now, to the projects. > I have never heard of seen PON on a DC level.
A friend of mine told me of a fascinating in-data center PON solution. He had a customer that needed high speed multicast fan-out. They chose to use a 10G/1G PON solution, a single source node sending 10G PON with a 1G backchannel, 100% of the traffic was multicast. It could be passively split in DC up to 128:1 with zero "packet loss", good luck finding an Ethernet switch which can take in 10G of multicast in and turn it into 1280G of multicast out without dropping a frame. It was all done entirely inside of a single data center. Since then I've mentioned the trick to several other folks I know who need high speed multicast/broadcast replication. In the DC distance is rarely an issue, so the solution degenerates to special SFP's and a splitter, which is pretty dang simple. However, this is clearly a corner case, and I agree with your assessment overall. -- Leo Bicknell - bickn...@ufp.org PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
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