I’ve used this guy a couple times, Use your favorite switch/POE switch and viola PON network using switches. Pretty sure it doesn’t work with Zhone… But Zhone is #88 in my list of PON vendor choices ;) https://supportforums.adtran.com/docs/DOC-8697 From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Ben Cannon Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 2:11 PM To: Nick Bogle Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: A few GPON questions... Rip it out. Where are your splitters? You can probably fix this with PoE 8-port switches and UPS-es. Every day you wait will cost more. You will never get 25 years out of this, I predict 6mos and then you rip it completely and put in copper/IDFs. -Ben On Dec 11, 2018, at 1:04 PM, Nick Bogle <nick@bogle.se<mailto:nick@bogle.se>> wrote: Unfortunately management didn't want an apple to apple comparison. They wanted a comparison to how it was spec'd out originally not how we typically deploy it now. I don't think this is a deal breaker for my job, we have 50+ buildings left to manage, and our contractor is responsible for maintaining it for the most part for the next year at minimum. The previous management (CIO/CTO/their assistants) were pretty much fired over this fiasco. New management is much better to deal with. On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 12:35 PM Alfie Pates <alfie@fdx.services<mailto:alfie@fdx.services>> wrote:
The cost analysis was already done.
Costs were not factored in for BBUs on every ONT like should have been spec'd out for emergency phone lines.
These two things do not quite agree. Update your CV - It is not your responsibility to shoulder the stress of your superiors' bad decisions, especially if you have no room to learn from those mistakes. ~a