Each house has a drop that is spliced to the cross box in the area. The
GPON or AE equipment is in a cabinet next to the cross box. So everyone
can get AE or GPON as needed.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sorin Esanu
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 1:11 AM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Calix 844GE
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.
