To fiber or not to fber

[amishgenius]

An opportunity landed in my lap to do FTTH in a small city of about 700 households for very little buildout costs. Of course there is lawyers and agreements etc....but seems like fiber may be a good thing to have.

Is there any reason other than money not to do FTTH?

[lligetfa]

Robert said he will have fibre products out this year so competing with the UBNT clout could be a concern.

[lligetfa]

Robert said he will have fibre products out this year so competing with the UBNT clout could be a concern.

Oops... not quite what he said. There is an "IF" in there.
http://community.ubnt.com/t5/airMAX-Gen ... 867#M46893

We have fiber
product in develompent, but are not sure exactly where to focus/prioritize. If we brought 2 or 3 fiber
based products to market in 2015, what should they be?

Thanks,
Robert

[amishgenius]

I would love to see it, but I'm quite certain whatever "it" is, it won't be available in time to be useful.

[lligetfa]

IKWYM about the time to market bit. Also don't know what products they will have and whether or not it will be a single vendor end-to-end solution.

What are you looking for? Did you want to go with standard SFPs or PON? Distribution (outside plant) only or CPE as well?

[amishgenius]

most likely PON. still learning about this stuff tho.

[rebelwireless]

FTTH is pretty interesting.

PON is kind of a curious thing right now. The passive nature of the splitters is kind of interesting, makes pole or box mounted 'hubs' seem pretty realistic.

I'm mostly concerned that the tech is still pretty early and a deployment today might leave you pretty limited vs upcoming features. Today, it's basically a single rx and single tx frequency, but vendors are working on multi-wavelength for wave-lans emulating the concept of vlans over the optics, and the 2.5Gbps on GPON is a little concerning, knowing that much faster speeds are coming down the pipe.

[adairw]

I think if I had the ability to do a fiber build I would do active ethernet. pure 1Gb up and down sounds good to me. :)
with bidi's being pretty cheap it seems like a no brainier.

[amishgenius]

Google does not seem to be publishing stats, but I found this that says possible 50% uptake in 3 years at $70. Methinks google put a vast amount of money into studies that came up with that number. Basically you have charge enough to be profitable, while not pricing yourself out of the market. should/could price be higher than $70 and still get good uptake?

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Surv ... ate-128852

ps...yes, I'm planning gigabit

[lligetfa]

PON is kind of a curious thing right now...

I think PON/EPON/GPON versus AON/SFPs will rage on for a while much like the Betamax versus VHS debate of decades ago. It may come down to cost versus technical superiority for some or available kit for others.

http://electronicdesign.com/what-s-diff ... r-networks