[160080] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Baugher)
Wed Jan 30 22:55:52 2013
In-Reply-To: <20130131025217.GA98942@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:55:39 -0600
From: Jason Baugher <jason@thebaughers.com>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
> In a message written on Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 08:27:27PM -0500, Jay
> Ashworth wrote:
> > You're assuming there, I think, that residential customers will have
> > mini-GBIC ports on their routers, which has not been my experience. :-)
>
> They don't today because there is no demand for such a feature. My
> point is that if people deployed FTTH in this way, there would be demand
> for such products. Many of the chipsets inside these boxes already
> support SFP PHY, they just don't put an SFP connector on them to save a
> couple of bucks. If there was demand vendors would have a product out
> in months not years, probably within $10 of current prices (not counting
> optics).
>
>
Calix is producing an Active Ethernet ONT combined with residential gateway
router. I believe it also supports TR-069 for remote management.
One other thing I noticed, most seem to assume a pair of fibers per device.
Assuming 1G connection, you can easily use bi-directional optics such as we
use for Active Ethernet and use a single fiber.
