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

Wed Feb 6 15:30:53 UTC 2013

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.

-r

PS: The word is _conflating_, not _confounding_.

Scott Helms <khelms at zcorum.com> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Robert E. Seastrom <[[rs at seastrom.com]]>
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>                Scott Helms <[[khelms at zcorum.com]]> writes:
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>      > 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
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>      > on a PON system its harder than a DOCSIS network.
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>      Categorically untrue.  It is all a matter of where the splitters are
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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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