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Re: Upstream bandwidth usage
From: Brandon Jackson <bjackson () napshome net>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2022 21:31:54 -0400
Why would they mandate such a thing? That seems like purely an operator decision.
It wasn't an arbitrary decision. The downstream has a single "talker", the OLT, so it can use 100% of the "airtime" for itself to talk to anyone on the port. The upstream on the other hand has 1-32 or even more talkers that all have to be syncrozied to talk at specific times even including guard bands to account for slight differences is time keeping, not only that, not every ONT is at the same fiber distance so an ONT that is closer must wait for a signal from an ONT that is farther to "pass" it. All of this creates some inefficiencies in the upstream. Now, it has gotten better with better technology of course but GPON is already 12-19ish years old. ---------------------------------- Brandon Jackson bjackson () napshome net On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 9:12 PM Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org> wrote:
I’m not mistaken, it also depends on the optics in the splitter, given that GPON is bidirectional single strand fiber. -mel via cellOn Jun 9, 2022, at 5:01 PM, Raymond Burkholder <ray () oneunified net> wrote: On 2022-06-09 17:35, Michael Thomas wrote:On 6/9/22 4:31 PM, Mel Beckman wrote: Adam, Your point on asymmetrical technologies is excellent. But you may not be aware that residential optical fiber is also asymmetrical. For example, GPON, the latest ITU specified PON standard, and the most widely deployed, calls for a 2.4 Gbps downstream and a 1.25 Gbps upstream optical line rate.Why would they mandate such a thing? That seems like purely an operator decision.There are also vendor issues involved. I am glad that Mel mentioned 'optical line' rate. Which becomes a theoretical thing. If the line cards aren't set up with buffering properly, then line rate won't be seen. And I think the line cards can also be easily over-subscribed. Oh, and due to the two or three step fan-out of 8/16/32, upstream becomes even more limited. So, if you have FTTH with 1::1 house::port, then you are cooking with fire. Else, it is the luck of the draw in terms of how conservative the ISP is provisioning a GPON infrastructure. Which, I suppose, depends if it is 1G or 10G GPON.
Current thread:
- Re: Upstream bandwidth usage, (continued)
- Re: Upstream bandwidth usage Michael Thomas (Jun 11)
- Re: Upstream bandwidth usage Mike Hammett (Jun 11)
- Re: Upstream bandwidth usage Josh Luthman (Jun 12)
- Re: Upstream bandwidth usage Mark Tinka (Jun 09)
- Re: Upstream bandwidth usage Adam Thompson (Jun 09)
- Re: Upstream bandwidth usage Michael Thomas (Jun 09)
- Re: Upstream bandwidth usage Raymond Burkholder (Jun 09)
- Re: Upstream bandwidth usage Mel Beckman (Jun 09)
- Re: Upstream bandwidth usage Brandon Jackson (Jun 09)
- RE: Upstream bandwidth usage Vasilenko Eduard via NANOG (Jun 10)
- Re: Upstream bandwidth usage Dave Bell (Jun 10)
- Re: Upstream bandwidth usage Mark Tinka (Jun 10)
- RE: Upstream bandwidth usage Vasilenko Eduard via NANOG (Jun 10)
- Re: Upstream bandwidth usage Mark Tinka (Jun 10)
- Re: Upstream bandwidth usage Jared Mauch (Jun 10)
- Re: Upstream bandwidth usage Kord Martin (Jun 10)
- Re: Upstream bandwidth usage Mark Tinka (Jun 10)
- Re: Upstream bandwidth usage Aled Morris via NANOG (Jun 10)
- Re: Upstream bandwidth usage Brandon Martin (Jun 10)