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From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Why can't the splitters be in the MMR? (I'm genuinely asking... I confess to a certain level of GPON ignorance).
Sorry for being late to the party (real work and all that).
There is no reason whatsoever that one can't have centralized splitters in one's PON plant. The additional costs to do so are pretty much just limited to higher fiber counts in the field, which adds, tops, a couple of percent to the price of the build.
Ok, see, this is what Leo, Owen and I all think, and maybe a couple others. But Scott just got done telling me it's *so* much more expensive to home-run than ring or GPON-in-pedestals that it's commercially infeasible.
More than offset by futureproofing and not requiring forklift upgrades to add a new technology for a few customers. Obviously the splitters should be owned by the service provider and upstream of the mega-patch-bay for a muni open access system.
Well, I would assume the splitters have to be compatible with the OLT/ONT chosen by a prospective L1 client, no? Or is GPON GPON, which is GPON?
Meanwhile, EPON seems to be the technology that's won out on a global basis. Might have something to do with the price - all the hooks to support legacy ATM stuff in GPON's GEM come at a cost. :-)
Hmmm. I invite you, Rob, if you have the time, to look at the Rollup and Followup posts I put out this afternoon, which are the look at this which is closest to current in time. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274