Not mentioned, but the other HUGE advantage of AE is that you're able to use a huge variety of equipment. The amount of stuff out there that you can do AE with vs GPON is like a 90:1 ratio. I have an AE setup using a datacenter-grade Arista 7148 capable of 1/10GbE to the customer and it was a very affordable switch to purchase.
You can use all sorts of ex-datacenter equipment and things that were designed for corporate LAN aggregation and leaf/spline architecture, repurposed for AE residential. With GPON you have maybe ten realistic choices of equipment vendors. On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 1:36 PM Mark - Myakka Technologies <m...@mailmt.com> wrote: > Chuck, > > My 0.02 > > First of all we would have to determine what type of AE we are talking > about. Are we talking a managed system like calix, zhone, etc with AE > cards in them using their respective OLT's? Or, are we talking about the > DIY stacking 48 port switches on top of each other and throwing some > mikrotiks out there? > > Also, we need to talk about density? How many customers are we talking? > AE is fine for smaller build outs, but doesn't scale well. The one big > advantage of AE over GPON is distance. You can economically run 4x as far > on AE as GPON. The best we can do on our GPON system is about 30km if we > us a Class C+ laser. > > Using my test cage as an example. This is a 4U cage with 7 slots. If I > use seven 8port cards, that gives me a maximum of 1792 customers in a 4U > space. That is 1792 customers powered by one redundant power supply > system. Also, that is 56 fiber cables running from the cage to the patch > panel. > > If I do AE on the 4U cage using 7 AE cards, I can get 140 customers in the > same space. About the same power requirements, but I'm using 140 fiber > cables at this point. > > Now if I move the the DIY AE system maybe I can get 48 per 1U. That will > give me 192 AE customers in a 4U space. But now I'm dealing with either 4 > or 8 power plugs. Not to mention 192 individual fiber jumpers to keep > track of. > > > Now there once was an argument that with AE, one could guarantee 1G speeds > at each port. I don't think that argument holds much water anymore. With > GPON you can sell 1G download speeds at 16 to 1 ratio. 10G GPON is > available now where you can down to 3 to 1 ration. I believe there is > even a 40G GPON so to be available. > > AE's advantage is distance and it being AE. For example being it is AE > you can interrupt fiber run with a wireless link if needed, can't do that > with GPON. > > > "If you have one strand going out there, you hang a switch and give all 30 > homes active E". That is great, but now you have to have a cabinet that > needs power and BBU. You are sharing a 1G , unless you you pop for a 10G > laser. Under GPON, you just go out and pop in a 1x32 splitter and off you > go. No cabinet or power needed. > > > At the end of the day the individual has to look at the pro/cons of each > system and figure out the right tool for the job. > > > *-- Best regards, Mark *mailto:m...@mailmt.com > <m...@mailmt.com> > > > *Myakka Technologies, Inc. *www.MyakkaTech.com > > > > > > *------ Wednesday, August 29, 2018, 2:52:22 PM, you wrote: * > > So, other than the obvious strand count advantages, why would you use this > vs active ethernet? > > *From: * > *Jim Bouse [Brazos WiFi] **Sent:* Wednesday, August 29, 2018 12:04 PM > *To: * > *AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group **Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti Ufiber > > It works fine. We have it in 2 subdivisions. > It is brain dead simple to configure. > Since it “Just Works” there isn’t a lot to configure. The ONU (cpe) can > run in bridge or router mode. I’m not sure what the routing/NAT speeds are > capable of but it will do 1G in bridge mode without breaking a sweat. > > Jim Bouse > Owner - Brazos WiFi > 979-985-5912 > http://www.brazoswifi.com > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Jason McKemie > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 29, 2018 12:17 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <Af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Ubiquiti Ufiber > > Does anyone actually have this equipment in a production environment? I > have a test setup, just haven't heard much discussion about it so I thought > I'd check with the group. > ------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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