Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

[Scott Helms <khelms () zcorum com>]

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Robert E. Seastrom <rs () seastrom com> wrote:

> If you were talking about layer 2 handoffs, your statement is perhaps
> even more untrue - active ethernet and PON layer 2 handoffs are
> approximately as easy as each other.

Perhaps you'd share some specifics?  I certainly haven't worked on all of
the PON systems that are out there, but the ones I have worked one didn't
have (or I didn't find) a good way to separate traffic at layer 2 so that
several operators could handle their own Layer 3 provisioning for customers
on the same OLT.


> -r
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> PS: The word is _conflating_, not _confounding_.
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> Scott Helms <khelms () zcorum com> writes:
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> > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Robert E. Seastrom <[[rs () seastrom com]]>
> > wrote:
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> >                Scott Helms <[[khelms () zcorum com]]> writes:
> >
> >      > In that case its even harder.  Before you even consider doing open
> >      > access talk to your FTTx vendor and find out how many they have
> >      done
> >      > using the same architecture you're planning on deploying.  Open
> >      access
> >      > in an active Ethernet install is actually fairly straight forward
> >      but
> >      > on a PON system its harder than a DOCSIS network.
> >
> >      Categorically untrue.  It is all a matter of where the splitters are
> >      placed.
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> > You're confounding the layers of the network or perhaps I was being
> unclear
> > that I was talking about Layer 2 handoffs.
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> >                A home run fiber plant architecture with an enormous patch
> >      frame and
> >      splitters provided by the open access provider if PON is their
> >      technoogy of choice is indistinguishable from an active ethernet
> >      install from an open access perspective.
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> > Again, I was speaking about Layer 2 open access.
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> >                -r
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