Hi, I am assuming below that you want to start with Active Ethernet, then migrate to GPON. If that is not your use case, ignore the rest of this reply.
844GE can do both Active Ethernet and GPON. The drawbacks are: - you are not able to install more than 2x 844GE per AE CSFP, as AE is a point to point technology. So be aware when you do the planning, as you cannot really mix AE and GPON. And each 844GE in AE mode will use one fiber. - AE and GPON use different SFPs and different ports on the card, so you will need different cards in your 2 scenarios, to achieve some density: AE - GE-24, GPON - GPON-8. Plus different optics (CSFP vs GPON). You might end with a more expensive deployment doing AE then converting to GPON than just doing GPON from the start, if that’s where you want to get in the end. > On 23 Jun 2017, at 04:28, George Skorup <george.sko...@cbcast.com> wrote: > > Anybody deploying these? I finally got the folks writing the checks on the > GPON bandwagon. Looks like they want to go all-out with a full Calix > infrastructure. So we're going to install the 844GE's at the existing > customers and temporarily convert to BiDi, then GPON later as it grows. So I > need to get some BiDi SFPs. I want Tx 1490 / Rx 1310 at the head-end.. right? > That's what it looks like to me, just want to make sure I'm not being stupid.
