I should probably have mentioned that in this sense I view “urban” as exclusive to “single family homes” - meaning I’m talking about high density modern urban with under grounding requirements - and high rise residential towers.
We are the opposite, we are presently enterprise, midsize, and exotic-small business only, and have no residential arm or support structure (or SLA expectations, or standards or lack thereof) of a residential connection. -Ben. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> > On Feb 9, 2019, at 2:54 AM, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.nordd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > PON in urban areas absolutely makes sense. Maybe less in a high rise area, > where each building can have a small building wide network of its own. But it > in areas with single family homes PON is king. > > Our POPs can have up to 10 000 customers each. All on a single 96 fiber > strand cable leading into the POP building. We have extra ducts, but nothing > that would allow us to change that to a point to point network. That would > require 100x that 96 fiber cable. > > With extra ducts it would be possible to rebuild from PON to point to point. > But it would require massive investments. Basically you would have to invest > all that we saved by building PON. For starters, you would have to have many > more POPs. > > And yes, there are splitters in the hand holes. This is not what stops you > from rebuilding from PON. It is the fact that we never paid for extra fiber. > The backbone in a sub area is typically build with a 24 fiber strand cable. > Because fibers are not free and are actually quite expensive as the number of > fibers grow and the distances get longer. We can do a few point to point > connections, for example if we need to deliver a commercial service or for > our own needs (to connect POPs etc). > > We are not big on commercial services. But if we were, I would use WDM > splitters for that. Or the long awaited 10G PON if that ever arrives and > turns out at a price point that works. > > Regards, > > Baldur >
