Re: Last Mile Design

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>]

Speaking of which, the Grant County Public Utility District (Washington 
State), has wired active ethernet all over their rural county.

Seems to me that the cost difference between splitters & switches is a 
pretty minor component of deploying FTTH - the costs are in the 
trenching, and the fiber.  What you put on the poles, or in the lawn 
furniture, is a pretty minor cost component. Though... getting power to 
the switches might be an issue, less so if you're deploying on power poles.

Miles Fidelman

On 2/9/19 12:59 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2019, Mark Tinka wrote:
>
> > If I had to build a consumer broadband network and had the budget 
> > (and owned the fibre) to do so, I'd definitely always choose Active-E:
>
> For anyone saying it's "impossible" to do AE they're welcome here to 
> the nordic region and especially Sweden where PON is basically unheard 
> of. We have millions of AE connected households. I live in one of them.
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