Upstream bandwidth usage
Mark Tinka
mark at tinka.africa
Fri Jun 10 08:33:22 UTC 2022
On 6/10/22 10:09, Dave Bell wrote:
> We are rolling out XGS-PON everywhere which is 10G symmetric. Just
> because the PON runs at 10G, doesn't mean you need to provision all of
> your customers at 10G.
>
> We have a range of residential packages from 150Mbps up to 1Gbps
> symmetric. The ONT is the same in all situations. There is no SFP
> cost, due to it being a copper port. If we were to offer residential
> packages beyond 1G, a CPE swap would be required, but there is little
> demand for that... yet...
Indeed - XG-PON does not mean you have to deliver 10Gbps to customers.
It just makes it easier to offer higher bandwidth that is symmetrical,
at what-should-be a lower cost than Active-E, for more customers at the
same time.
Mark.
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