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<font face="Tahoma">My preference, for the home, would be Active-E.
But I do understand the economics that may support PON, and my
position on that has softened over the years. My service provider
delivers their FTTH service to me via PON, and for the most part,
it's been all good.<br>
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That said, I was particularly impressed with what CDE Lightband
did in Clarksville, Tennessee, where they deployed their FTTH
network with Active-E using Brocade to over 60,000 subscribers:<br>
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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: <br>
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In South Africa, we have an access network operator that uses
Active-E primarily to deliver their service, making it perhaps the
only FTTH provider not using PON to do this. I find this quite
fascinating.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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I should probably have mentioned that in this sense I view “urban”
as exclusive to “single family homes” - meaning I’m talking about
high density modern urban with under grounding requirements - and
high rise residential towers.
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midsize, and exotic-small business only, and have no residential
arm or support structure (or SLA expectations, or standards or
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<div class="">PON in urban areas absolutely makes
sense. Maybe less in a high rise area, where each
building can have a small building wide network of
its own. But it in areas with single family homes
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<div class="">Our POPs can have up to 10 000 customers
each. All on a single 96 fiber strand cable leading
into the POP building. We have extra ducts, but
nothing that would allow us to change that to a
point to point network. That would require 100x that
96 fiber cable.</div>
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<div class="">With extra ducts it would be possible to
rebuild from PON to point to point. But it would
require massive investments. Basically you would
have to invest all that we saved by building PON.
For starters, you would have to have many more POPs.</div>
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<div class="">And yes, there are splitters in the hand
holes. This is not what stops you from rebuilding
from PON. It is the fact that we never paid for
extra fiber. The backbone in a sub area is typically
build with a 24 fiber strand cable. Because fibers
are not free and are actually quite expensive as the
number of fibers grow and the distances get longer.
We can do a few point to point connections, for
example if we need to deliver a commercial service
or for our own needs (to connect POPs etc).</div>
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<div class="">We are not big on commercial services.
But if we were, I would use WDM splitters for that.
Or the long awaited 10G PON if that ever arrives and
turns out at a price point that works.</div>
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