FTTx Active-Ethernet Hardware

[Ray Soucy <rps () maine edu>]

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.

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).

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.




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Ray Patrick Soucy
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