If the Desktop NIC can talk directly to the PON, that totally makes
sense. But why run PON to the wall/Cube just to terminate into RJ45
that you still have to power? And you're still going to have Wifi
AP's/VoIP handsets that will require power at the endpoint (one could
argue, at every desk that has a PON connection), which unless they have
some magic, I don't think can be powered via Fiber. Tellabs seems to be
pushing PON to the Wall, I haven't seen any mention of PON to the
desktop in the literature (the little that I looked at on the Tellabs
site). I understand how a proposal can be presented so that that the
'suits' will be really impressed to near wetting themselves with $1000's
of savings, but from an actual usage standpoint, I seems like it still
has some hurdles to overcome. Remember, this is a corporate LAN
environment, where you control everything down to the Users PC
experience, not a BYOD to plug into a PON.
On 6/23/2015 10:26 AM, Mike Hammett wrote:
PON to the desktop would only have active gear in the NOC and in the
device. Everything between is passive.
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*From: *"Nate Burke" <n...@blastcomm.com>
*To: *af@afmug.com
*Sent: *Tuesday, June 23, 2015 10:16:36 AM
*Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Indoor GPON - Why?
But Why? I understand Long haul PON for FTTH, to conserve miles and
miles of trunk fiber, but why in a building? Instead of having a
single device (a switch) you now have active hardware all over the
building to manage and maintain (And power).
On 6/23/2015 10:08 AM, Mike Hammett wrote:
PON looks to be where people are going for fiber to the desktop.
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*From: *"Nate Burke" <n...@blastcomm.com>
*To: *"Animal Farm" <af@afmug.com>
*Sent: *Tuesday, June 23, 2015 9:49:14 AM
*Subject: *[AFMUG] Indoor GPON - Why?
We just had a new public library built here in town. The entire LAN
infrastructure is built on PON using the Tellabs ONT's.
http://www01.tellabs.com/products/tellabs1100ont.shtml I've briefly
looked around their site, and read some case studies, but Why
would you
choose PON infrastructure in a single building? From what I can
tell,
you still have to run CAT 5 to the ONT for power, and the 4 port
units
(which I saw several around the library) have a wall-wort and a power
switch. I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the concept,
other
than someone make a slick presentation, and someone else got a nice
payoff. I wouldn't be surprised of the Latter, every single 120v
outlet
in the building is a 20A duplex receptacle with USB Ports (~$30 each)
