FTTP Networks
Jan 26th, 2008 by Nick
So the company I work for has been deploying Fiber-to-the-Premise Networks for three years now, we have two markets now and are looking at quite a few more markets. We have had our ups and downs and it has been one wild ride. One of my responsibilities is evaluating fiber equipment and making recommendations on what we use and where we are going. Thus far I have evaluated three different PON platforms from three different vendors. The first PON platform we went with was a little rough, it works pretty good today but it is not standards based. In the new market that we deployed we made the decision to base our build-out on GEPON instead of GPON like the rest of North America has gone. Since we are building our network out Greenfield and we do not have a large investment in legacy equipment like most providers it has made sense for us to base our deployments on GEPON since it is more geared towards a full IP network than GPON. The market is still young and every few months bring new innovations and new vendors. In the next few months there are a few big name vendors that will be entering the GEPON market and this could really shake things up.
Time will tell!
