Re: A few GPON questions...

["Anderson, Charles R" <cra () wpi edu>]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 05:36:47PM +0000, Aled Morris via NANOG wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 17:30, Jason Lixfeld <jason+nanog () lixfeld ca> wrote:
> > There’s only so much space in conduits, risers and ducts.  At some point, scale would press this up against 
> > physical infrastructure realities depending on how far the active gear at the head end is from the subscriber.
>
> A point made earlier was that typically in a campus environment, most
> every riser cupboard has access to power so you can easily build a
> regular Ethernet LAN with a switch on every floor/corridor/hub.
> Basically, everywhere that you'd put a GPON splitter.

And WDM gear if necessary...heck even passive CWDM if you have a riser space issue.