I've heard a lot of good stuff about Gigalight, though not necessarily in teh FTTx market.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Fabien via Af" <af@afmug.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 7:21:10 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Fiber Weekend Wispalooza Sterling, we are taking a very similar approach, wireless backhauled FTTH from tower to home, with long term plan to build out a ring for backhaul later. We've worked the costs down to be manageable. What chinese SFP have you had good results with? I tried one set and had issues with having to enable/disable autoneg on one or both sides to get it stable - this was with a RB260 to RB2011 link at a tower site. On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Sterling Jacobson via Af < af@afmug.com > wrote: Hybrid model, I bring bandwidth in via wireless to the neighborhood and set up a cabinet that serves all the houses in active Ethernet fiber. GPON is ok, but in this model so much of the expense was burial of conduit that it really didn’t make sense to just pull for GPON. Plus GPON restricts you to a specific vendor market. My model might not scale to thousands of installs a month, but it works for hundreds a POP. A POP is about $15k for 200+ connections completely contained and redundant. The end points and fiber construction are on top of that of course. That is the major expense, the labor to bore and trench and splice hella ton of conduit, boxes and fiber strands. My entire GigE NID/ONT setup is less than $100 installed though. Buried conduit all the way to the side of the house, and fiber to the NID. It’s built to last, the conduit and fiber being our biggest expense and asset. Mikrotik “ONT” and off the shelf lasers from china for next to nothing. I haven’t seen any cheaper ONT setup than what we do, and it’s full GigE. The only piece of the puzzle I’m missing to do 10GigE to the home is a cheaper transceiver. I’m sure that will come next year. Sky’s the limit once the fiber is in the ground on a one to one basis with the switch and the ONT. We leave enough fiber to do a pair at the house, though everything is BIDI right now. I don’t believe in VoIP or TV, so it’s all Ethernet. The customer can get their traditional phone and TV elsewhere. Which is nice for regulations because we dodge every single headache I used to have with a WISP. This fiber stuff is soooooooooooooooo much better and easier. Costs more though. From: Af [mailto: af-boun...@afmug.com ] On Behalf Of Jason Pond via Af Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2014 8:03 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Fiber Weekend Wispalooza So enlighten us to what you are doing Sterling. So far so good. Tomorrow will answer some more. Sincerely, Jason Pond Owner Grizzly Internet, Inc p...@grizzlyinternet.com On Oct 11, 2014 6:36 PM, "Sterling Jacobson via Af" < af@afmug.com > wrote: <blockquote> Anyone there that would like to update? I couldn't make it. Not sure that I would have gotten anything out of it anyways. I don't use any equipment from any of the sponsors/vendors of fiber weekend. I'm just curious if they are all talking/preaching the same ONT/deployment strategies as usual? I wonder how close they are to what I am doing. </blockquote>
