Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

Sat Feb 2 10:19:55 UTC 2013

On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 04:43:56PM -0800, Leo Bicknell wrote:

> The only place PON made any sense to me was extreme rural areas.
> If you could go 20km to a splitter and then hit 32 homes ~1km away
> (52km fiber pair length total), that was a win.  If the homes are
> 2km from the CO, 32 pair (64km fiber pair length total) of home
> runs was cheaper than the savings on fiber, and then the cost of
> GPON splitters and equipment.  I'm trying to figure out if my assessment
> is correct or not...

Is there any specific reason why muni networks don't use 1-10 GBit
fiber mesh, using L3 switches in DSLAMs on every street corner?