[AusNOG] DSL G.Fast Details

[John Edwards]

The average Australian home has a 6-wire lead-in.

While an FTTN approach will use just 1 pair of copper, there's no
technical reason why an FTTdp product couldn't use all 6 wires as an
upgrade path.

Servicing homes with a 1:1 mini-node-per-house as a kind of
GPON/Copper media convertor, rather than an N:1 aggregation node might
be dramatically simpler to plan, execute, maintain and upgrade.

John


On 4 February 2015 at 02:45, Mark Delany <g2x at juliet.emu.st> wrote:
>
> Is there an upgrade path to this approach or is FTTdp the end game?
>
> I don't really understand how there could be an upgrade path as
> replacing all the downstream copper with fibre leaves you with the
> problem of powering the pit - unless the vestigial copper stays forever
> as a power source. Alternatively, custom pit-to-premise cabling could
> include POE-like stranding.