Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Jan 31, 2013, at 13:57 , Fletcher Kittredge <fkittred () gwi net> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
> If you have an MMR where all of the customers come together, then you
> can cross-connect all of $PROVIDER_1's customers to a splitter provided
> by $PROVIDER_1 and cross connect all of $PROVIDER_2's customers to
> a splitter provided by $PROVIDER_2, etc.
>
> If the splitter is out in the neighborhood, then $PROVIDER_1 and $PROVIDER_2
> and... all need to build out to every neighborhood.
>
> If you have the splitter next to the PON gear instead of next to the subscribers,
> then you remove the relevance of the inability to connect a splitter to multiple
> OLTs. The splitter becomes the provider interface to the open fiber plant
>
> Owen;
>
> Interesting.   Do you then lose the cost advantage because you need home run fiber back to the MMR?   Do you have 
> examples of plants built with this architecture (I know of one such plant, but I am hoping you will turn up more 
> examples.)

I don't know of any. Yes, it would eliminate part of the theoretical cost savings of the PON architecture, but the 
point is that it would provide a technology agnostic last mile infrastructure that could easily be used by multiple 
competing providers and would not prevent a provider from using PON if they chose to do so for other reasons.

Owen