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www.carrieraccess.com makes PON CPE gear. http://www.carrieraccess.com/products/index.cfm/fuseaction/ default_prod/cat_id/118.htm www.alcatel.com makes PON 'head end' gear that works with CAC CPE. Basically, 1 strand of fiber (not a pair) can be used for 16 or 32 customers and will handle up/down data, down video, up/down T1 for voice at the customer. Head end voice, video and data is split apart. Carrier Access Corp hardware is rock solid, I have *never* had one fail. I don't use the PON stuff but I do use their DS1 & DS3 stuff. -Matt On Dec 9, 2003, at 12:58 PM, Miguel Mata-Cardona wrote: Hi, I've been reading a little about passive optic networks and the idea is very good from my stand point. As far as I have understood, the idea is to use the fiber as it was coax, doing some kind of FDM (frequency division multiplexing) with the lambdas (somehow the same). This would give us the capability to move at leat n x 10mbps ethernet on the same fiber using diferent lambdas for each customer, until power budget goes down. If the idea is correct, this would mean "next jump" on bandwidth. Who would be making this "ethernet/lambda multiplexors" right now? Is it feasible to do it today? or should we wait a little more? I mean, there are solutions using packet over sonet or alike, but pure ethernet? -- Miguel Mata-Cardona Intercom El Salvador [email protected] voz: ++(503) 278-5068 fax: ++(503) 265-7024 -- Matthew S. Crocker Crocker Communications, Inc. Vice President PO BOX 710 Greenfield, MA 01302 P: 413-746-2760 F: 413-746-3704 W: http://www.crocker.com E: [email protected]
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