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Re: Demarc in FTTH ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Feb 25 18:58:11 2013

Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:57:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <512BF756.1020601@vaxination.ca>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jean-Francois Mezei" <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>

> What are you thoughts about whether FTTH GPON systems have a demarc or
> not ?
> 
> Would it be the ONT ? (since beyond the ONT, the end user has no
> ability to test the line).
> 
> or should FTTH be viewed more like DOCSIS systems where there is no
> official demarc ?

Many many opinions on this are in the archives from about 3 weeks ago;
you should look for "L1 vs L2", and several threads whose titles look
related. :)

Cheers,
-- jra
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