Average number of ports on OLT cards
Brandon Martin
lists.nanog at monmotha.net
Sat Mar 3 14:26:16 UTC 2018
On 03/02/2018 05:38 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote:
> Quick question: (sanity check).
>
> For a deployment happening now by an incumbent telco (aka: serving large
> number of homes), how many GPON ports would it want per each OLT card ?
>
> or more precisely, what sort of range is there for the number of ports
> for such a deployment?
I'm mostly seeing 8 or 16 ports per card for GPON these days. Chassis
seem to be ranging from 4-16 slots of line cards (plus some other slots
for management, uplink, etc.). EPON density seems comparable.
XGS-PON and 10G-EPON seem to be 4-8 ports per card often in the same
chassis with GPON/EPON.
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Brandon Martin
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