What's so great about them over other vendors? Also, do they have a path to NG-PON2? On Jan 15, 2016 9:09 PM, "Gerard Dupont III" <ger...@shelbybb.com> wrote:
> We're doing Alphion now. We also have Dasan and ZTE systems in place. Plan > on migrating them to Alphion sometime this year though. > > On Friday, January 15, 2016, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net> > wrote: > >> What are you using for GPON now? >> >> >> >> I’m starting to use some of the higher density 48 port Planet switches in >> active. >> >> >> >> *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Gerard Dupont III >> *Sent:* Friday, January 15, 2016 7:55 PM >> *To:* af@afmug.com >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Planet MGSW-28240F >> >> >> >> We have a few of those in place for a couple years now in non climate >> controlled cabinets. This will be the third winter. We're just using cheap >> chinese bidi optics. Some from fiberstore. Customer sides are >> mostly MikroTik 2011 or rb260gs. >> >> >> >> Had some minor issues early on but they were fixed in later l firmware. >> >> >> >> I can't remember the last time I had to touch them. They've been solid. >> >> >> >> We've moved to gpon for any new builds or I'd probably still be >> installing them. >> >> >> >> Gerard >> >> On Friday, January 15, 2016, George Skorup <geo...@cbcast.com> wrote: >> >> Derp, I forgot. What do you have on the other end of the ports? >> Routerboards with bidi SFPs? We're not sure what we're going to do on the >> CPE end yet. It's a multi party venture and those guys haven't made up >> their minds yet, other than each premise will have a pair and they want >> active ethernet. I mentioned GPON and was told no. So then I said why not >> do bidi and basically heard crickets. So whatever, I'm just in charge of >> designing the core network inside their box of requirements. >> >> On 1/15/2016 8:12 PM, George Skorup wrote: >> >> Excellent. Thanks. >> >> On 1/15/2016 8:05 PM, Craig Baird wrote: >> >> We have this exact switch in service right now with Fiberstore BiDis. >> It's never given us any trouble. >> >> Craig >> >> >> Quoting George Skorup <geo...@cbcast.com>: >> >> I'm working on a fiber project and was wondering if anyone else has used >> this Planet switch? >> http://www.planet.com.tw/en/product/product.php?id=48441 >> >> Is Planet picky about SFP modules? I was planing on ordering some cheap >> single mode modules from Fiber Store to use with this and get the project >> rolling. Such as: >> http://www.fs.com/1-25-gbps-gige-1000base-lx-lh-1310nm-20km-dom-industrial-temp-lc-smf-sfp-transceiver-p-37258.html >> >> Already ordered the switch, so we'll see what happens. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>
