Re: A few GPON questions...

[Alfie Pates <alfie@fdx.services>]

The first question to ask yourself is: Why does this need to be GPON? 

The primary advantage of GPON is that it's *passive* (on the
distribution side, at least) - this makes it ideal for building networks
where most of your infrastructure located in places that getting power
is infeasible: for instance, common residential fibre networks where
most of your infrastructure lives on unpowered poles or in
ducts/chambers.
I have not yet come across a network closet which doesn't have
provisions for power: If this is a small-to-medium sized campus network
you'd be better served by running ordinary optical ethernet and dropping
switches where you need to aggregate capacity.
GPON is a rabbit hole that you do not want to go down, if you can
feasibly avoid it: Ordinary ethernet is simply easier.
~a