[160528] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Thu Feb 7 14:45:06 2013
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 20:43:00 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Jason Baugher wrote:
> On the CO-side electronics, however... I think it's safe to say that you
> can do GPON under $100/port. AE is probably going to run close to
> $300/port. That's a pretty big cost difference, and if it were me I'd be
> looking pretty hard at a PON deployment for the majority of the
> customers along with a certain amount of fiber left over for those who
> need special services.
How do you come to the $300 per AE port? When I look at it, I get around
USD100-150 per AE port including SFP.
Also, I expect the customer end to be cheaper for AE than for PON, right?
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
