[119754] in North American Network Operators' Group
FTTH Active vs Passive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luke Marrott)
Mon Nov 30 21:59:03 2009
From: Luke Marrott <luke.marrott@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:57:58 -0700
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I'm wondering what everyones thoughts are in regards to FTTH using Active
Ethernet or Passive. I work for a FTTH Provider that has done Active
Ethernet on a few networks so I'm always biased in discussions, but I don't
know anyone with experience in PON.
I've read before that almost all PON technology is proprietary, locking you
into a specific hardware vendor. However I think this is changing or has
already changed, opening PON up for interoperability. Can anyone confirm
this?
Thanks in advance.
:Luke Marrott
