[160455] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Wed Feb 6 10:34:16 2013
To: Scott Helms <khelms@zcorum.com>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:30:53 -0500
In-Reply-To: <CAMrdfRz+VER4nJckNbLMEbckEtLbygQbVMHSog15eb7UV8wOvw@mail.gmail.com> (Scott
Helms's message of "Wed, 6 Feb 2013 10:15:46 -0500")
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
If you were talking about layer 2 handoffs, your statement is perhaps
even more untrue - active ethernet and PON layer 2 handoffs are
approximately as easy as each other.
-r
PS: The word is _conflating_, not _confounding_.
Scott Helms <khelms@zcorum.com> writes:
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Robert E. Seastrom <[[rs@seastrom.com]]>
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> Scott Helms <[[khelms@zcorum.com]]> writes:
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> > In that case its even harder. Before you even consider doing open
> > access talk to your FTTx vendor and find out how many they have
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> > using the same architecture you're planning on deploying. Open
> access
> > in an active Ethernet install is actually fairly straight forward
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> > on a PON system its harder than a DOCSIS network.
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> Categorically untrue. It is all a matter of where the splitters are
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> You're confounding the layers of the network or perhaps I was being unclear
> that I was talking about Layer 2 handoffs.
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> A home run fiber plant architecture with an enormous patch
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> splitters provided by the open access provider if PON is their
> technoogy of choice is indistinguishable from an active ethernet
> install from an open access perspective.
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> Again, I was speaking about Layer 2 open access.
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> -r
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