Scott Helms wrote:
Numbers? Examples?
Greenfield SS and PON deployment costs in Japan was already shown.
This is simply incorrect in many places. The only reasons to run PON are financial, since Ethernet out performs it,
No, the only reason to insist on PON is to make L1 unbundling not feasible.
are you saying that all greenfield PON installs are cheaper done as Ethernet without exception?
No, SS is cheaper than PON without exception. If the initial density of subscribers is high, SS is fine. If it is not, initially, most electric equipment, OE port, fibers, splitters and a large closures containing the splitters of PON can not be shared by two or more subscribers, which means PON incurs much more material and labor cost for each initial subscriber than SS. Masataka Ohta