They may be cheap but I inquired and they won't just give you pricing so I don't know. They have to "Customize" a complete solution for you. Typical big boy sales crap with an immediate NDA before they will talk with you. It completely turned me off on using Alphion.
> Ballpark on cheap? > > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > Midwest Internet Exchange > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Gerard Dupont III" <ger...@shelbybb.com> > To: af@afmug.com > Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 9:41:01 PM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Planet MGSW-28240F > > They're cheap and have good support. No random issues like other vendors > we've tried. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather use calix or one of the big > names, but I can't make the numbers work for the small wireless fed > residential builds we keep doing. > > > No they don't have a path to NG-PON2 that I'm aware of. I'm not worried > about that right now though since we are wirelessly feeding all of the > neighborhoods. > > > On Friday, January 15, 2016, Josh Reynolds < j...@kyneticwifi.com > wrote: > > > > 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: > > <blockquote> > 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: > > <blockquote> > > > > What are you using for GPON now? > > Iâm 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: > <blockquote> > > 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: > <blockquote> > > Excellent. Thanks. > > On 1/15/2016 8:05 PM, Craig Baird wrote: > <blockquote> > > 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 >: > <blockquote> > > 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. > > > > > > > > </blockquote> > > > </blockquote> > > > </blockquote> > > </blockquote> > > </blockquote> > > </blockquote> > >
