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

[Mark Tees]

These were the micro OLT guys:

https://tibitcom.com

Good luck :)


On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 at 03:31, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Aug 29, 2020, 06:28 Mark Tees <marktees at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> It depends what your ultimate goal is? Just for play/learning etc or
>> other?
>>
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> 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.
>
> Complex service OLT is going to be $2-3k at least on eBay.
>>
>
> Unfortunately that's what I saw.
>
>>
>> The thing is though GPON is not very vendor inter-operable. There are
>> exceptions.
>>
>
> Yes, Ubiquiti ONTs can be configured in Huawei emulation mode etc.
>
>>
>> There are also SFP modules that have integrated OLT’s that I have heard
>> of people using with Cisco routers wit
>>
> h third party ONT.
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>
> Now this sounds very interesting. First time I hear about this.
>
> Any nanes/links to deepen my research? Thanks in advance.
>
> 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.
>>
>
> 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.
>
> I wanted to check if there was some sort of "nVidia jetson with two
> optical transceivers turns into a micro OLT" kind of thing.
>
> It seems I'll have to wait until someone else does it. Which I'm sure they
> will, sooner or later.
>
> FC
>
>>
>> --
Regards,

Mark Tees
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