<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 29, 2020, 06:28 Mark Tees <<a href="mailto:marktees@gmail.com">marktees@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">It depends what your ultimate goal is? Just for play/learning etc or other?</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hi Mark, </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks for your reply. Yes, indeed, the first. My experience is limited to pulling drop Fibre and have a handful working OLTs on my desk. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Complex service OLT is going to be $2-3k at least on eBay.<br></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Unfortunately that's what I saw. </div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The thing is though GPON is not very vendor inter-operable. There are exceptions.</div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yes, Ubiquiti ONTs can be configured in Huawei emulation mode etc. </div><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There are also SFP modules that have integrated OLT’s that I have heard of people using with Cisco routers wit</div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">h third party ONT.</div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto">Now this sounds very interesting. First time I hear about this. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Any nanes/links to deepen my research? Thanks in advance. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">If you want to learn you could pick a particular vendor and see if they have training. Cisco, Calix, Adtran, Nokia etc may have training material and have the ability to do labs.<br></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yes, that's a good idea. In a "normal" context that's something I'd pursue. But in this covid context, I'm stuck homeworking for the time being. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I wanted to check if there was some sort of "nVidia jetson with two optical transceivers turns into a micro OLT" kind of thing.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It seems I'll have to wait until someone else does it. Which I'm sure they will, sooner or later. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">FC</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><br></div>
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