Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

["Robert E. Seastrom" <rs () seastrom com>]

Scott Helms <khelms () 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.

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.

-r