Re: FTTx Active-Ethernet Hardware

[Max Tulyev <maxtul () netassist ua>]

We are using TP-LINK for ETTH, and it seems very good with a fair price.

Only the problem is they like to make completely another device and sell
it as the same part number but another "hardware revision" which is only
written by small letters on the device itself. So you have to keep an
eye on it.

On 10.02.15 15:34, Mike Hammett wrote:
> Check out Mikrotik, Planet and TP-Link. 
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> Mike Hammett 
> Intelligent Computing Solutions 
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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.