Which FNO's does GPON and who does Active Ethernet?

[charlieharper]

Which FNO's does GPON and who does Active Ethernet?

I assume GPON is most common here, but are there actually areas that's got Active Ethernet in SA?

 

[Johnatan56]

The original Vumatel installs in e.g. Tamboerskloof is AON.

Pretty much all fiber they bought is GPON and all other provides are GPON (frogfoot, Openserve, octotel).

Only one that might go AON is cybersmart, but thats a tricky one since they only deliver to high density buildings like apartment complexes, it's why they can be so cheap.

I think a lot of CBD is AON and then maybe century city.

You don't need to care about AON vs GPON for a home or most businesses, since it can easily deliver Gbps speeds to most users due to the nature of how people access the internet, and in terms of upgrade paths, GPON already has newer cheap upgrade paths that move from 2.5/1Gbps to X-GPON which is 10/2.5Gbps to XS-GPON which is 10/10Gbps which e.g. AT&T are using in the US as cost has come down enough to be viable this year for standard install.

There's also faster ones already in research, the fiber itself is not the bottleneck, it's the equipment, and they can always decrease the number of switches to increase the speed to households.

 

[ENIAC]

Some places in New Zealand have already upgraded their original GPON equipment with X-PON. AE or GPON is great for residential, especially considering this is the “slowest” it’ll ever be, and upgrades are pretty much guaranteed as long as it makes financial sense to the FNOs.

 

[websquadza]

Which FNO's does GPON and who does Active Ethernet?

I assume GPON is most common here, but are there actually areas that's got Active Ethernet in SA?

As said above, all Vumatel Core (trenched networks) runs Active Ethernet. Includes majority of their JHB, CPT and DBN Networks. Vuma Aerial (Old Fibrehoods), Vuma Village (SADV) and other Vuma acquisitions are grouped under Aerial and all run GPON.

Most other FNOs run GPON as far as I know

 

[Kyoto]

currently most FNO's run GPON, the next step is XGSPON which is 10G up and down, there is already NGPON 2, or WDM PON which runs 4 X wavelengths at 10G, already talking about multiple wavelengths of 25 or 50G, which can be bonded if required, with ONT's that tune to the differant wavelengths.