[65913] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: pon's and ethernet to the home
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Thu Dec 18 11:03:55 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:59:28 -0500
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
To: "Miguel Mata-Cardona" <mmata@intercom.com.sv>
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
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Dear Miguel;
Having heard no answer, I will take a shot :
I actually think that EPONs have a good chance to be the future method
of distributing video from the "cable" provider to the home. As they
are passive, it minimizes the amount of equipment out there. A
10-Gigabit Ethernet running multicast IP (probably with some form of
packet tagging like MPLS) could more than support all of the video and
data needs of a typical cable head-end customer base.
There is a PON forum
http://www.ponforum.org/presentations/page115.html
and also the fiber to the home council which seems to be hot on EPONs
http://www.ftthcouncil.org/
You might look at alloptic as a equipment provider here
http://www.alloptic.com/
On Tuesday, December 9, 2003, at 12:58 PM, Miguel Mata-Cardona wrote:
>
> Hi, I've been reading a little about passive optic networks and the
> idea is very good from my stand point.
>
> As far as I have understood, the idea is to use the fiber as it was
> coax, doing some kind of FDM (frequency division multiplexing) with
> the lambdas (somehow the same). This would give us the capability
> to move at leat n x 10mbps ethernet on the same fiber using diferent
> lambdas for each customer, until power budget goes down.
>
> If the idea is correct, this would mean "next jump" on bandwidth.
> Who would be making this "ethernet/lambda multiplexors" right
> now? Is it feasible to do it today? or should we wait a little more?
> I mean, there are solutions using packet over sonet or alike, but
> pure ethernet?
>
>
> --
> Miguel Mata-Cardona
> Intercom El Salvador
> mmata@intercom.com.sv
> voz: ++(503) 278-5068
> fax: ++(503) 265-7024
>
>
>
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
T.M. Eubanks
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