A few GPON questions...

Tue Dec 11 17:50:12 UTC 2018

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 05:36:47PM +0000, Aled Morris via NANOG wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 17:30, Jason Lixfeld <jason+nanog at lixfeld.ca> wrote:
> > There’s only so much space in conduits, risers and ducts.  At some point, scale would press this up against physical infrastructure realities depending on how far the active gear at the head end is from the subscriber.
> 
> A point made earlier was that typically in a campus environment, most
> every riser cupboard has access to power so you can easily build a
> regular Ethernet LAN with a switch on every floor/corridor/hub.
> Basically, everywhere that you'd put a GPON splitter.

And WDM gear if necessary...heck even passive CWDM if you have a riser space issue.