[AusNOG] Low cost OLT or OLT emulator? Why not?

[Mark Tees]

It depends what your ultimate goal is? Just for play/learning etc or other?

Complex service OLT is going to be $2-3k at least on eBay.

The thing is though GPON is not very vendor inter-operable. There are
exceptions.

There are also SFP modules that have integrated OLT’s that I have heard of
people using with Cisco routers with third party ONT.
 Not sure on cost though.

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.



On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 at 19:07, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> 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.
>
> First question: Can anyone recommend any low-cost GPON OLT for a lab?
>
> 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"
>
> 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.
>
> So that got me thinking why isn't there a super low cost micro-OLT that
> can serve just a handful of ONTs?.
>
> One ca buy a ONT nowadays for less than a hundred bucks.
> And optical transceivers can be had for less than $50 a pair...with some
> cheap Gigabit Ethernet to fibre media converters for around $35
>
> 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.
>
> I'm surprised nobody seems to have done a "DIY OLT simulator"... "hackaday
> style"...
>
> 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.
>
> Maybe my Google-fu is failing?
>
> I can't seem to find any cheap used 2-port OLTs either.
>
> Thoughts? Comments? TIA...
> FC
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Mark Tees
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