[160203] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sat Feb 2 13:09:01 2013
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130202101955.GP6172@leitl.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 10:04:10 -0800
To: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 2, 2013, at 2:19 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
> 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?
Well, one reason is that, IMHO, the goal here is to provide a flexible
L1 platform that will allow multiple competing providers a low barrier
to entry to provide a multitude of competitive services.
Owen
