[177958] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FTTx Active-Ethernet Hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ammar Zuberi)
Tue Feb 10 09:55:30 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Ammar Zuberi <ammar@fastreturn.net>
In-Reply-To: <CALFTrnMDuWch9vXVs4W8VFwAjPgCx+gB=hYxN05GD2yQP4bU8g@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:52:24 +0400
To: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Hi,
Here in Dubai they have a wide FTTH deployment (almost 80% of homes and offi=
ces) with almost no copper in the service provider networks.
They use these Planet devices in every deployment I've taken a look at so fa=
r.
Ammar
> On 10 Feb 2015, at 6:42 pm, Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu> wrote:
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> Price and functionality-wise Planet MGSW-28240F and GSD-1020S look
> pretty close to what I'm looking for. Anyone have real experience
> with using them on a large scale? Performance?
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>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
>> Check out Mikrotik, Planet and TP-Link.
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>> Mike Hammett
>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>> http://www.ics-il.com
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>> ----- Original Message -----
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>> From: "Ray Soucy" <rps@maine.edu>
>> To: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 7:31:22 AM
>> Subject: FTTx Active-Ethernet Hardware
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>> One thing I'm personally interested in is the growth of municipal FTTx
>> that's starting to happen around the US and possibly applying that
>> model to highly rural areas (e.g. 10 mile long town with no side
>> streets, existing utility polls, 250 or so homes) and doing a
>> realistic cost analysis of what that would take.
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>> What options are out there for Active-Ethernet hardware. Ideally
>> something that could handle G.8032 and 802.1ad in hardware for the
>> distribution side (24 or 48-port SFP metro switch) and something
>> inexpensive for the access side but still managed (e.g. a 4-port
>> switch with an SFP uplink supporting Q-in-Q).
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>> I'm really looking for something cheap to keep costs down for a
>> proof-of-concept. The stuff from Cisco and even Ciena is a bit more
>> expensive than my target.
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>> --
>> Ray Patrick Soucy
>> Network Engineer
>> University of Maine System
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>> T: 207-561-3526
>> F: 207-561-3531
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>> MaineREN, Maine's Research and Education Network
>> www.maineren.net
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> Ray Patrick Soucy
> Network Engineer
> University of Maine System
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> T: 207-561-3526
> F: 207-561-3531
>=20
> MaineREN, Maine's Research and Education Network
> www.maineren.net
