Thank you, this is useful information. From your perspective as a user, do things seem fairly stable? On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Ammar Zuberi <ammar@fastreturn.net> wrote:
Hi,
Here in Dubai they have a wide FTTH deployment (almost 80% of homes and offices) with almost no copper in the service provider networks.
They use these Planet devices in every deployment I've taken a look at so far.
Ammar
On 10 Feb 2015, at 6:42 pm, Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu> wrote:
Price and functionality-wise Planet MGSW-28240F and GSD-1020S look pretty close to what I'm looking for. Anyone have real experience with using them on a large scale? Performance?
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote: Check out Mikrotik, Planet and TP-Link.
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From: "Ray Soucy" <rps@maine.edu> To: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 7:31:22 AM Subject: FTTx Active-Ethernet Hardware
One thing I'm personally interested in is the growth of municipal FTTx that's starting to happen around the US and possibly applying that model to highly rural areas (e.g. 10 mile long town with no side streets, existing utility polls, 250 or so homes) and doing a realistic cost analysis of what that would take.
What options are out there for Active-Ethernet hardware. Ideally something that could handle G.8032 and 802.1ad in hardware for the distribution side (24 or 48-port SFP metro switch) and something inexpensive for the access side but still managed (e.g. a 4-port switch with an SFP uplink supporting Q-in-Q).
I'm really looking for something cheap to keep costs down for a proof-of-concept. The stuff from Cisco and even Ciena is a bit more expensive than my target.
-- Ray Patrick Soucy Network Engineer University of Maine System
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-- Ray Patrick Soucy Network Engineer University of Maine System
T: 207-561-3526 F: 207-561-3531
MaineREN, Maine's Research and Education Network www.maineren.net
-- Ray Patrick Soucy Network Engineer University of Maine System T: 207-561-3526 F: 207-561-3531 MaineREN, Maine's Research and Education Network www.maineren.net