FTTP & GEPON
Jun 2nd, 2007 by Nick
So the company I work for is getting ready to deploy our second Fiber to the Premise Market. We did our first greenfield market right at 2 years ago and the industry has come such a long way in two years. Two years ago we decided to go with Wave 7 Optics LML Platform. It’s been a good system, 2 years ago it was amazing. Since then the industry has come a long way, GEPON is now a standard and it’s amazing how many different vendors there are. It has been interesting to see that even with GEPON being a standard the way that each vendor we have looked at does things just a little bit differently. Rack densities are much higher than they were, what used to take 4 RU to provide 96 customers with 100 Meg up/down connections I can now offer 256 or 512 customers up to a 1 gig up/down connection. Most platforms have gone from acting as Layer 3 routers to now only being Layer 2 glorified switches. At first I hated this but as we have tested I actually like the idea much more as I can now place default gateways for various services exactly where I want them instead of having to setup weird routing.
With so much change in two years only time will tell what we see in the next two years as more companies start deploying FTTP networks.
