PON can do either topology you mentioned, assuming vendor support.
MetroNet uses one hut to feed all of DeKalb, Sycamore, and Cortland. I'm not sure if Genoa has their own hut or if they haul back to Sycamore as well. In my builds, I want one per town to reduce failure domains. I could technically feed PON customers in Shabbona from Hinckley. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2024 6:57:33 PM Subject: [AFMUG] PON question Since there are FTTH people here and I’m mostly ignorant of such things, maybe someone can clear something up for me. I always assumed a PON based FTTH system had a topology kind of like HFC. I expected fiber down the street with splitters, but fed by some sort of neighborhood node in a cabinet with power and electronics, fed by active EPL style fiber. Which could have redundant paths, rings, etc. so a fiber cut wouldn’t take down a whole town or multiple towns, the backbone traffic would reroute. I’ve been told this is not the case. And that instead, each PON could go back over a strand to a headend several towns and many miles away, all passive. Sorry for the poor description of my question, hopefully you can figure out what I’m asking. -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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