On 13-02-08 03:36, Masataka Ohta wrote:
The problem of PON is that, to efficiently share a fiber and a splitter, they must be shared by many subscribers, which means drop cables are longer than those of SS.
Pardon my ignorance here, but could you explain why the cables would be physically different in the last mile ? It is my understanding that the last mile of a PON and a point to point would be indentical with individual strands for each home passed, and then a drop between the cable and each home that wishes to connect. Why would this be different in a PON vs Point to Point system ? Wher I see a difference is between the neighbourhood aggregation point and the CO where the PON system will have just 1 strand for 32 homes whereas point to point will have 1 strand per home passed. But the lengths should be the same, shouldn't they ?