I don't really have any advice to offer here (sorry), but I am curious how setting up a GPON LAN would save money vs just getting cheaper switches...and also what a GPON LAN even looks like. Does every office or classroom have an ONT?
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 10:53 AM Nick Bogle <n...@bogle.se> wrote: > Hello fellow NANOG members :) > > Let me start with a little bit of background, my day job is a Network > Engineer for a local university where we have primarily a Cisco environment > from phones to switching to routing, etc. Before my time, we hired a > contractor to design a GPON LAN system for a new building as a cost saving > measure (though I am not sure how successful that was). > > Either way, the contractor is about to hand the system off to us, and we > have gone through the training and such, and I feel confident in my ability > to manage the system, but we have a few questions that the manufacturer of > our equipment and our contractor didn't really want to answer. We are > currently using a Dasan Zhone MXK-F1419 with several different downstream > ONT models (all Zhone). > > -We would like to consider use of 3rd party GPON B+ Optics on the > linecards to add redundancy to the splitter (as the cost of 1st party are > too high). Does anyone have experience with 3rd party > vendors/compatibility/stability issues? We were told they theoretically > should work and just throw a log event, but it hasn't been tested. If so, > what vendors would you recommend? So far all we've really seen are Ubiquiti > and Fiberstore optics. > > -As GPON is a standard itself, I'm aware interoperability between OLT and > ONT vendors is heavily limited.. Does anyone have any experience using say, > Zhone ONT's with a different model OLT, or Zhone ONT's with a different > model OLT? I've heard word that Zhone ONT's may be able to work with Nokia > OLT's but it's technically not supported. > > -We've already experienced some pretty big stability issues (have replaced > 1 line card 5 times..), our contractor is saying it's just because we were > a pretty early adopter of this line and that they've fixed it and fixed > internal policies to add additional QA and testing before shipping to > customers. Does anyone have any experience with working with Zhone and > their overall stability of components? > > - Any other thoughts/gotchas/advice for deploying a GPON environment in a > corporate LAN? (or about deploying a Zhone solution) It's pretty service > provider oriented, and is incredible noticeable in the CLI. > > -Is anyone familiar with Zhone CLI? The apparent lack of any "show" > configuration commands is infuriating. > > > Feel free to contact me offlist if you have any pertinent info that you > don't want on the list. > > Thanks, > > Nick Bogle > n...@bogle.se >
