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Re: A few GPON questions...


From: Aled Morris via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:36:47 +0000

On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 17:30, Jason Lixfeld <jason+nanog () lixfeld ca> wrote:
There’s only so much space in conduits, risers and ducts.  At some point, scale would press this up against physical 
infrastructure realities depending on how far the active gear at the head end is from the subscriber.

A point made earlier was that typically in a campus environment, most
every riser cupboard has access to power so you can easily build a
regular Ethernet LAN with a switch on every floor/corridor/hub.
Basically, everywhere that you'd put a GPON splitter.

Aled


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