On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 05:36:47PM +0000, Aled Morris via NANOG wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 17:30, Jason Lixfeld <jason+na...@lixfeld.ca> wrote: > > There’s only so much space in conduits, risers and ducts. At some point, > > scale would press this up against physical infrastructure realities > > depending on how far the active gear at the head end is from the subscriber. > > A point made earlier was that typically in a campus environment, most > every riser cupboard has access to power so you can easily build a > regular Ethernet LAN with a switch on every floor/corridor/hub. > Basically, everywhere that you'd put a GPON splitter.
And WDM gear if necessary...heck even passive CWDM if you have a riser space issue.
