Last Mile Design

Sat Feb 9 18:20:36 UTC 2019

Speaking of which, the Grant County Public Utility District (Washington 
State), has wired active ethernet all over their rural county.

Seems to me that the cost difference between splitters & switches is a 
pretty minor component of deploying FTTH - the costs are in the 
trenching, and the fiber.  What you put on the poles, or in the lawn 
furniture, is a pretty minor cost component. Though... getting power to 
the switches might be an issue, less so if you're deploying on power poles.

Miles Fidelman

On 2/9/19 12:59 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2019, Mark Tinka wrote:
>
>> If I had to build a consumer broadband network and had the budget 
>> (and owned the fibre) to do so, I'd definitely always choose Active-E:
>
> For anyone saying it's "impossible" to do AE they're welcome here to 
> the nordic region and especially Sweden where PON is basically unheard 
> of. We have millions of AE connected households. I live in one of them.
>
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