On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
In a message written on Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 08:27:27PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote:
You're assuming there, I think, that residential customers will have mini-GBIC ports on their routers, which has not been my experience. :-)
They don't today because there is no demand for such a feature. My point is that if people deployed FTTH in this way, there would be demand for such products. Many of the chipsets inside these boxes already support SFP PHY, they just don't put an SFP connector on them to save a couple of bucks. If there was demand vendors would have a product out in months not years, probably within $10 of current prices (not counting optics).
Calix is producing an Active Ethernet ONT combined with residential gateway router. I believe it also supports TR-069 for remote management. One other thing I noticed, most seem to assume a pair of fibers per device. Assuming 1G connection, you can easily use bi-directional optics such as we use for Active Ethernet and use a single fiber.