[160196] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Sat Feb 2 05:20:10 2013
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 11:19:55 +0100
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20130202004356.GA77024@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 04:43:56PM -0800, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> The only place PON made any sense to me was extreme rural areas.
> If you could go 20km to a splitter and then hit 32 homes ~1km away
> (52km fiber pair length total), that was a win. If the homes are
> 2km from the CO, 32 pair (64km fiber pair length total) of home
> runs was cheaper than the savings on fiber, and then the cost of
> GPON splitters and equipment. I'm trying to figure out if my assessment
> is correct or not...
Is there any specific reason why muni networks don't use 1-10 GBit
fiber mesh, using L3 switches in DSLAMs on every street corner?
