On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Robert E. Seastrom <r...@seastrom.com> wrote:
> > If you were talking about layer 2 handoffs, your statement is perhaps > even more untrue - active ethernet and PON layer 2 handoffs are > approximately as easy as each other. > Perhaps you'd share some specifics? I certainly haven't worked on all of the PON systems that are out there, but the ones I have worked one didn't have (or I didn't find) a good way to separate traffic at layer 2 so that several operators could handle their own Layer 3 provisioning for customers on the same OLT. > > -r > > PS: The word is _conflating_, not _confounding_. > > Scott Helms <khe...@zcorum.com> writes: > > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Robert E. Seastrom <[[r...@seastrom.com]]> > > wrote: > > > > Scott Helms <[[khe...@zcorum.com]]> writes: > > > > > In that case its even harder. Before you even consider doing open > > > access talk to your FTTx vendor and find out how many they have > > done > > > using the same architecture you're planning on deploying. Open > > access > > > in an active Ethernet install is actually fairly straight forward > > but > > > on a PON system its harder than a DOCSIS network. > > > > Categorically untrue. It is all a matter of where the splitters are > > placed. > > > > > > > > > > > > You're confounding the layers of the network or perhaps I was being > unclear > > that I was talking about Layer 2 handoffs. > > > > > > > > A home run fiber plant architecture with an enormous patch > > frame and > > splitters provided by the open access provider if PON is their > > technoogy of choice is indistinguishable from an active ethernet > > install from an open access perspective. > > > > > > > > > > > > Again, I was speaking about Layer 2 open access. > > > > > > > > -r > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Scott Helms > > Vice President of Technology > > ZCorum > > (678) 507-5000 > > -------------------------------- > > [[http://twitter.com/kscotthelms]] > > -------------------------------- > -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 -------------------------------- http://twitter.com/kscotthelms --------------------------------