On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 10:59 AM Nick Bogle <nick@bogle.se> wrote:
That is correct. We are running SMF from our Datacenter to the end users desk in the building and providing either in wall 4 port ONTs or desktop 8-16 port ONTs. Everywhere there would be a traditional 3 port CAT6 network jack there is a APC fiber jack and/or an in wall ONT.
Hi Nick, Yikes! That's upside down even for PON. The P is for Passive. The whole idea is to not have powered infrastructure in inconvenient locations because that's expensive and super hard to reliably maintain. I think maybe you've found yourself in a "throwing good money after bad" situation. You have the LAN equivalent of motion sensor lighting in the restroom. Sounds great until you realize the maximum delay setting is 15 minutes... how many dark #2s before you have to bite the bullet and take it out? This is going to cost you cash and productivity for as long as you keep trying to make it work. Moreover, the combination of inflexibility and elevated incidence of outages will consume the occupants' productivity as well. There will never be a less expensive time to install a classic (copper) cabling infrastructure than before the building is occupied. This is where you dip in to the organization's contingency funds and take the political hit. And for the love of God, break the contract for the next building. Even if you have to pay it out and just lose the money, save yourself the expense of ever having to operate it. If they won't take your word for it, get an external networking company to do an impact and cost analysis so you can show the administration what they'll lose by continuing this folly. I'll bet your contractor had some questions they didn't want to answer. If I'd sold you this bill of goods there'd be questions I wouldn't want to answer too. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>