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From: "Masataka Ohta" <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
In addition, as PON is even less efficient initially when subscriber density is low and there are few subscribers to share a field splitter (unless extremely lengthy drop cables are used, which costs a lot), PON is slower to pay them off.
In case you missed it, I was the OP, and you don't have to convince *me* not to use PON; I already didn't want to. 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