Re: Enterprise GPON / Zhone Questions

[Aled Morris via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 at 06:48, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl () gmail com> wrote:
> It is possible one should not choose this system over a traditional approach, but the people screaming "rip it out" 
> are out of line IMHO. It would be a huge expense to rewire a building with copper and they already got a working 
> fiber system. Much can be said about GPON but it is actually quite stable and easy to manage.

I don't think anyone is saying replace the existing fibre with copper,
but instead to run cheap SFP-equipped switches in basically the same
topology as the GPON you described.

For a new build, less splitting and more copper in-building would be
cheaper and easier.

Aled