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

Wed Feb 6 15:15:46 UTC 2013

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Robert E. Seastrom <rs at seastrom.com> wrote:

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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 but
> > 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
> placed.
>

You're confounding the layers of the network or perhaps I was being unclear
that I was talking about Layer 2 handoffs.

> 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.
>

Again, I was speaking about Layer 2 open access.

> -r
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