If you were talking about layer 2 handoffs, your statement is perhaps even more untrue - active ethernet and PON layer 2 handoffs are approximately as easy as each other. -r PS: The word is _conflating_, not _confounding_. Scott Helms <khelms@zcorum.com> writes:
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Robert E. Seastrom <[[rs@seastrom.com]]> wrote:
Scott Helms <[[khelms@zcorum.com]]> writes:
> In that case its even harder. Before you even consider doing open > access talk to your FTTx vendor and find out how many they have done > using the same architecture you're planning on deploying. Open access > in an active Ethernet install is actually fairly straight forward but > on a PON system its harder than a DOCSIS network.
Categorically untrue. It is all a matter of where the splitters are placed.
You're confounding the layers of the network or perhaps I was being unclear that I was talking about Layer 2 handoffs.
A home run fiber plant architecture with an enormous patch frame and splitters provided by the open access provider if PON is their technoogy of choice is indistinguishable from an active ethernet install from an open access perspective.
Again, I was speaking about Layer 2 open access.
-r
--
Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 -------------------------------- [[http://twitter.com/kscotthelms]] --------------------------------