If your plan does not involve putting the router in the living area (or central area of the house) I highly recommend doing so. We started with the indoor ONTs with wireless, without the router being in the living area it ends up not working well at all.
ONT on side of house, ethernet into router is a A+ combo, in my opinion. Then your not snaking fiber through the customers house, prone to being broken. You could even do a outdoor ONT in the basement if you feel like it, that is fine as well. Ethernet to the router on the central level. On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 2:11 AM, Sorin Esanu <so...@evox.ro> wrote: > 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. > >
