Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

Thu Jan 31 03:55:39 UTC 2013

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell at ufp.org> wrote:

> In a message written on Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 08:27:27PM -0500, Jay
> Ashworth wrote:
> > You're assuming there, I think, that residential customers will have
> > mini-GBIC ports on their routers, which has not been my experience.  :-)
>
> They don't today because there is no demand for such a feature.  My
> point is that if people deployed FTTH in this way, there would be demand
> for such products.  Many of the chipsets inside these boxes already
> support SFP PHY, they just don't put an SFP connector on them to save a
> couple of bucks.  If there was demand vendors would have a product out
> in months not years, probably within $10 of current prices (not counting
> optics).
>
>
Calix is producing an Active Ethernet ONT combined with residential gateway
router. I believe it also supports TR-069 for remote management.

One other thing I noticed, most seem to assume a pair of fibers per device.
Assuming 1G connection, you can easily use bi-directional optics such as we
use for Active Ethernet and use a single fiber.