[160208] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Mezei)
Sat Feb 2 14:23:28 2013
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:23:15 -0500
From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <7249088.4570.1359819388729.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 13-02-02 10:36, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> Yes, but everyone on a splitter must be backhauled to the same L1 provider,
> and putting splitters *in the outside plant* precludes any other type
> of L1 service, *ever*. So that's a non-starter.
If you have 4 ISPs, why not put 4 splitters in the neighbourhood ?
Individual homes can be hooked to any one of the 4 splitters, and you
then only need 4 strands between splitter and CO.
I understand that having strands from CO to Homes is superior at the
technical point of veiw and gives you more flexibility for different
services (including commercial services to a home while the neighbour
gets residential services).
But if strands from CO to homes is so superior, how come telcos aren't
doing it and are using GPON instead ?
