Last Mile Design

Fri Feb 8 19:38:54 UTC 2019

Good for you.  None of this PON splitter nonsense.

Miles Fidelman

On 2/8/19 2:17 PM, Aaron wrote:
> We run direct fiber connections to each house and business and 
> terminate them on the same switches.  Our switches are housed in small 
> "huts" that are dispersed throughout the city and each handle a 
> specific area then the huts are all connected in a ring. It really 
> comes down to what your geography looks like.
>
> Aaron
>
>
> On 2/7/2019 5:46 PM, David Ratkay wrote:
>> I am not sure if this is a easy question to answer. But I am 
>> wondering what ISP's do for their residential and business customers 
>> for designing POP's that they usually access to get theur traffic 
>> into a given ISP and beyond. Is it usually a L1/L2 connection from 
>> the CE to the last mile POP? Or L2 even within the last mile POP. Do 
>> you just have POP's delegated to residential users and a separate POP 
>> for business users. Or is it done on a geographical basis. So for 
>> this region of City-A we manage both residential and business 
>> customers at this same POP.
>
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