Last Mile Design

Tony Wicks tony at wicks.co.nz
Fri Feb 8 20:31:34 UTC 2019


It also significantly reduces the requirement to distribute active equipment into the field while massively reducing the feeder fibre requirement. Point to point has its place to be sure, but mass market FTTH is not viable without PON's economics.


On 02/08/2019 12:48 PM, Aaron wrote:
> I've always felt PON is a tool for people who don't know how to design a 
> proper network.

Why is that?

I always thought PON was a technology that reduced the number of active 
ports, thus altering the port cost per subscriber significantly by not 
actually needing dedicated ports.



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