[193472] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Passive Optical Network (PON)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carlos Alcantar)
Sun Jan 22 14:39:04 2017
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From: Carlos Alcantar <carlos@race.com>
To: Kenneth McRae <kenneth.mcrae@me.com>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 19:38:57 +0000
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I think it's really depends on your use case. If you know your TOR switche=
s are doing 1-2 gigs at all times PON would be quite expensive to keep up w=
ith this type of usage. If your talking distribution/access out to cameras=
ect it would work. We run gpon across our entire access network 99% of th=
e time it's fine once in awhile you'll get that one user that is killing th=
e pon port and will move them to an active ethernet port. Now when NG-PON2=
starts to hit the market, now you're talking about something that could be=
used in the data center with it's capabilities to do 4X 10G PON bonding. =
Note this is not going to be cheap but doable.
Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / carlos@race.com<mailto:carlos@race.com> / http://w=
ww.race.com<http://www.race.com/>
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From: NANOG <nanog-bounces@nanog.org> on behalf of Kenneth McRae <kenneth.m=
crae@me.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2017 8:44:02 AM
To: NANOG
Subject: Passive Optical Network (PON)
Greeting all,
Is anyone out there using PON in a campus or facility environment? I am ta=
lking to a few vendors who are pushing PON as a replacement for edge switch=
ing on the campus and in some cases, ToR switch in the DC. Opinions on thi=
s technology would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Kenneth
