Re: Passive Optical Network (PON)

2017-01-23 Thread Josh Reynolds
That's a genious idead On Jan 23, 2017 11:17 AM, "Leo Bicknell" wrote: > 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 PO

Re: Passive Optical Network (PON)

2017-01-23 Thread Leo Bicknell
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

Re: Passive Optical Network (PON)

2017-01-23 Thread Max Tulyev
Hi, using in rural area, it works. Much cheaper than ETTH. On 21.01.17 18:44, Kenneth McRae wrote: > Greeting all, > > Is anyone out there using PON in a campus or facility environment? I am > talking to a few vendors who are pushing PON as a replacement for edge > switching on the campus and

Re: Passive Optical Network (PON)

2017-01-22 Thread Stas Bilder
I evaluated several campus PON project on both vendor/provider and customer sides over the last 5 years. PON was designed as a last-mile technology for _operators_ to cover huge areas and save on OPEX - that's the usual vendor's mantra. GigE usually takes two fibers to deliver; GigE aggregation re

Re: Passive Optical Network (PON)

2017-01-22 Thread Carlos Alcantar
ww.race.com<http://www.race.com/> From: NANOG on behalf of Kenneth McRae Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2017 8:44:02 AM To: NANOG Subject: Passive Optical Network (PON) Greeting all, Is anyone out there using PON in a campus or facility environment? I am talking to a few vendors who

Re: Passive Optical Network (PON)

2017-01-21 Thread Mike Hammett
nt: Saturday, January 21, 2017 3:31:18 PM Subject: Re: Passive Optical Network (PON) On 1/21/17 8:44 AM, Kenneth McRae wrote: > Greeting all, > > Is anyone out there using PON in a campus or facility environment? I am > talking to a few vendors who are pushing PON as a replacement

Re: Passive Optical Network (PON)

2017-01-21 Thread joel jaeggli
On 1/21/17 8:44 AM, Kenneth McRae wrote: > Greeting all, > > Is anyone out there using PON in a campus or facility environment? I am > talking to a few vendors who are pushing PON as a replacement for edge > switching on the campus and in some cases, ToR switch in the DC. Opinions on > this te

Passive Optical Network (PON)

2017-01-21 Thread Kenneth McRae
Greeting all, Is anyone out there using PON in a campus or facility environment? I am talking to a few vendors who are pushing PON as a replacement for edge switching on the campus and in some cases, ToR switch in the DC. Opinions on this technology would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ken