----- Original Message ----- > From: "Frank Bulk (iname.com)" <frnk...@iname.com>
> What's missing in this dialogue is the video component of an offering. > Many customers like a triple (or quad) play because the price points > are reasonable comparable to getting unbundled pricing from more than > one provider, and they have just throat to choke and bill to pay. > > But few IP TV providers will claim good profitability. And I don't > believe any vendor has ActiveE and RFoG going down one strand. Not an issue I'd missed. The suggestion of, I believe it was Owen, to run GPON over the home-run fiber, with the splitters at the headend, solves that problem rather nicely, though; the L3+ provider can do whatever they like; if they need GPON to deliver, they (or we) can provision the splitters, and patch through them, back to whatever OLT eqiuvalent they deliver from. In fact, I need to find out the pricing class of the GPON splitters; given what I gather the port count difference is between the line cards on, say, the Calix E7, I might do my own L2 service that way, since the Calix ONTs will take either. I'm working up a what, how and why writeup on this, given my personal set of tradeoffs; I hope to get it up by morning, so no one feels left out on the last Whacky Weekend before the conference (which, dammital, I can't attend, even though it's in Florida for the first time in a decade...). Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274