Fibre provider question

zeck said:
Sorry, I meant NG-PON2 technology. While SADV installs NG-PON1. Netstream is open access and they offering to connect us to the DFA network as there is access point outside the property.
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what vendor are they using as all NGPON 2 is currently being aimed at business services and the optics are extremely expensive and RARE. would be nice to know so I can investigate further.
 
Kyoto said:
what vendor are they using as all NGPON 2 is currently being aimed at business services and the optics are extremely expensive and RARE. would be nice to know so I can investigate further.
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From what I read NGPON 2 shouldn't be expensive as it uses the same fibre only the OLT and ONU is replaced according to wikipedia. SADV also states they have plans to upgrade to NGPON 2.

I didn't quite understand, the company said they use nokia 7368 ONT, which I'm quite happy about.
 
NGPON2 is for developed countries (IMO) who had BPON AND GPON which means they had time to get their ROI back on that hardware/infrastructure. They are therefor reaching the limitations of GPON and aren't in the landgrab phase as SA is.

SA is only starting with GPON relative to other countries which had PON for 20 years. So most of our infrastructure can only handle GPON. It is pointless having a 10Gb or 80Gb access circuit when nothing can make use of it. In a business environment (FTTB) it might make sense, but then again it has to make business sense for the access network provider. From what I can see nobody in SA is doing NGPON2 right now as it is not commercially viable.
 
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Phence said:
NGPON2 is for developed countries (IMO) who had BPON AND GPON which means they had time to get their ROI back on that hardware/infrastructure. They are therefor reaching the limitations of GPON and aren't in the landgrab phase as SA is.

SA is only starting with GPON relative to other countries which had PON for 20 years. So most of our infrastructure can only handle GPON. It is pointless having a 10Gb or 80Gb access circuit when nothing can make use of it. In a business environment (FTTB) it might make sense, but then again it has to make business sense for the access network provider. From what I can see nobody in SA is doing NGPON2 right now as it is not commercially viable.
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I don't see what is wrong with having a gpon2 infrastructure if it's being offered. I would rather have it now than going through pains to upgrade the network in 10 years.
 
I don't understand why you speak as if South Africa can't immediately start off with a better infrastructure. I've been to some 3rd world countries with fibre.
 
zeck said:
I don't understand why you speak as if South Africa can't immediately start off with a better infrastructure. I've been to some 3rd world countries with fibre.
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If you read the last sentence of my post, you can see that I summarised and reiterated my conclusion from earlier in that same paragraph.
 
Well according to the offer I received you're statement is wrong. Also, from the spec it is backward compatible with PON.
 
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