<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I think for people on this list there's nothing particularly scary about acquiring a GPON device.<div><br></div><div>If we were talking completely greenfields, I'd suggest it'd be a fine way to go, but it's not, it's brownfield, we have to move from Cu based services to GPON on a large scale and in a, for the telco wireline world, fairly rapid pace.</div><div><br></div><div>It's not solving the problem that needs solving - which is to find a way to migrate people across in a simple and reliable fashion and most people have no understanding of how to acquire a CPE, configure it etc. </div><div><br></div><div>I just don't buy the argument that it'd be cheaper - it just appears to shift the costs around and make some things harder. NBN doesn't need harder at the moment.</div><div><br></div><div>MMC</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On 18/07/2013, at 7:50 PM, Lincoln Dale <<a href="mailto:ltd@aristanetworks.com">ltd@aristanetworks.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mmc@mmc.com.au" target="_blank">mmc@mmc.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I'd argue it's cheaper to do what NBNCo are doing and put an active bit of kit in.<br></blockquote><div><br>"Cheaper" for whom?<br>One thing I never liked about a NTU is its "yet another box" that requires power 24/7.<br>
I like Simon's idea because basically it gives more flexibility and its one less thing.<br><br>Some back of envelope calculations.<br><br>I've not seen actual power consumption data for the NTU however based on its stated battery (12V7Ah) and that you get "2-3 hours" out of 50% SoC, that equates to 16.8Wh/hr power consumption.<br>
Lets say power brick is 80% efficient then 21W actual usage x 24 hours x 365 days = 183kWh/annum x 10M premises @ 20c/kWh = $367M.<br><br>Ok thats only $36/annum/premises but its what you/I are having to pay in power.<br>
No doubt having a GPON interface on a router doesn't come "for free" either but I bet that could be done on a CPE for 1/10th that power number when you need a CPE device anyway.<br><br></div></div>
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