Re: Standards for last mile performance

2016-05-02 Thread Eric Kuhnke
It hugely depends on the physical layout of the homes/area for economics of active-E vs GPON... The scale of the outside plant aerial fiber is very different in certain scenarios. A green field modern housing development with everything underground might be very different than a semi-rural chain

Re: Standards for last mile performance

2016-05-01 Thread Josh Reynolds
Disagreeing is okay. It wouldn't make you any less wrong though :P On May 1, 2016 3:58 AM, "Mark Tinka" wrote: > > > On 1/May/16 10:55, Josh Reynolds wrote: > > > No. Active has higher initial and ongoing plant costs (cabinet power, > > cabinet wear and tear, more battery

Re: Standards for last mile performance

2016-05-01 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/May/16 10:55, Josh Reynolds wrote: > No. Active has higher initial and ongoing plant costs (cabinet power, > cabinet wear and tear, more battery banks, chargers, etc). You also > end up using far, far less fiber strands. > I tend to disagree, but this is one of those debates that could go

Re: Standards for last mile performance

2016-05-01 Thread Josh Reynolds
In addition, the upgrade path uses the same strands simultaneously. On May 1, 2016 3:46 AM, "Mark Tinka" 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

Re: Standards for last mile performance

2016-05-01 Thread Josh Reynolds
No. Active has higher initial and ongoing plant costs (cabinet power, cabinet wear and tear, more battery banks, chargers, etc). You also end up using far, far less fiber strands. On May 1, 2016 3:46 AM, "Mark Tinka" wrote: > > > On 30/Apr/16 20:36, Josh Reynolds wrote: > >

Re: Standards for last mile performance

2016-05-01 Thread Mark Tinka
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

Re: Standards for last mile performance

2016-04-30 Thread Josh Reynolds
experience, monitoring, and guesswork. On Apr 30, 2016 11:28 AM, "Jean-Francois Mezei" <jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca> wrote: > > The CRTC hearing went well (thanks for all your help). > > One of the unanswered questions was how to set performance standards for > the

Standards for last mile performance

2016-04-30 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
The CRTC hearing went well (thanks for all your help). One of the unanswered questions was how to set performance standards for the last mile to ensure people get advertised speeds (within reason). I had asked the question about contention ratio and it appears there is no proper way to set