Do they have just a standard PON box at each desktop? If so, that's critically stupid. PON to the wall is friggin dumb. PON to an SFP in the machine is what they should be doing.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nate Burke" <n...@blastcomm.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 10:44:14 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Indoor GPON - Why? 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. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- 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: <blockquote> PON looks to be where people are going for fiber to the desktop. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- 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) </blockquote>
