<div><div dir="auto">It depends what your ultimate goal is? Just for play/learning etc or other?</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Complex service OLT is going to be $2-3k at least on eBay.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The thing is though GPON is not very vendor inter-operable. There are exceptions.</div><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 with third party ONT.</div><div dir="auto"> Not sure on cost though.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 at 19:07, Fernando Cassia <<a href="mailto:fcassia@gmail.com">fcassia@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 dir="auto">Dear list,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have just discovered this mailing list thanks to another list member who saw my message on Link and suggested that here I'd find the right audience for my ramblings. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">First question: Can anyone recommend any low-cost GPON OLT for a lab?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have a handful of ONTs, fibre tools, connectors, adapters, splitters, but when I talk about OLTs all I can say is "there's some blade-looking box at the ISP that speaks to the ONTs" </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Not being myself an ISP I found the cost of OLTs above a thousand greenbacks. Which is a price I cannot justify - specially now, in this economic context. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So that got me thinking why isn't there a super low cost micro-OLT that can serve just a handful of ONTs?. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">One ca buy a ONT nowadays for less than a hundred bucks. <br></div><div dir="auto">And optical transceivers can be had for less than $50 a pair...with some cheap Gigabit Ethernet to fibre media converters for around $35<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My end goal is to either buy a MICRO-OLT capable of provisioning a couple ONTs on my desk, or set up two ONTs talking to each other through an intermediary device THAT fakes being a real OLT and lets me learn about provisioning in the process. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm surprised nobody seems to have done a "DIY OLT simulator"... "hackaday style"...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I understand GPON is much more complex than GEPON but still... It'd be worth it for the GPON vendors to have this kind of low cost device available to set up gpon deployment training and networking test labs. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Maybe my Google-fu is failing?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I can't seem to find any cheap used 2-port OLTs either.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thoughts? Comments? TIA... </div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">FC</div></div></div>
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