[160543] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Mezei)
Fri Feb 8 05:53:39 2013
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:53:27 -0500
From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5114B90F.50002@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 13-02-08 03:36, Masataka Ohta wrote:
> The problem of PON is that, to efficiently share a fiber and
> a splitter, they must be shared by many subscribers, which
> means drop cables are longer than those of SS.
Pardon my ignorance here, but could you explain why the cables would be
physically different in the last mile ?
It is my understanding that the last mile of a PON and a point to point
would be indentical with individual strands for each home passed, and
then a drop between the cable and each home that wishes to connect.
Why would this be different in a PON vs Point to Point system ?
Wher I see a difference is between the neighbourhood aggregation point
and the CO where the PON system will have just 1 strand for 32 homes
whereas point to point will have 1 strand per home passed. But the
lengths should be the same, shouldn't they ?
