Re: Average number of ports on OLT cards

On 03/02/2018 05:38 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote:

Quick question: (sanity check).

For a deployment happening now by an incumbent telco (aka: serving large number of homes), how many GPON ports would it want per each OLT card ?

or more precisely, what sort of range is there for the number of ports for such a deployment?

I'm mostly seeing 8 or 16 ports per card for GPON these days. Chassis seem to be ranging from 4-16 slots of line cards (plus some other slots for management, uplink, etc.). EPON density seems comparable. XGS-PON and 10G-EPON seem to be 4-8 ports per card often in the same chassis with GPON/EPON. -- Brandon Martin