In addition, the upgrade path uses the same strands simultaneously. On May 1, 2016 3:46 AM, "Mark Tinka" <mark.ti...@seacom.mu> wrote:
> > > On 30/Apr/16 20:36, Josh Reynolds wrote: > > > For us (FTTH) we had/have enough aggressive foresight to do smaller > > splits.. 1x16. Some are doing 1x2's or 1x4's at the corner somewhere into > > 1x16's or 1x8's, so at the point where you start to hit decent saturation > > you can just shrink the upstream split and fuse onto a new upstream > strand > > / optic. Once that gets overused, thankfully you can overlay NG-PON2. > > If you're being this aggressive, and then having to re-invest in the > next PON standard, isn't the case for Active-E being made more and more? > > Mark. >