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doommaster t1_iwvgfug wrote

Reply to comment by FriendlyDespot in FCC orders ISPs to show broadband 'nutrition labels' with all fees and limits by Sorin61

I am not sure but a PON-Splitter is almost certainly more expensive than say blowing in 12 fibers over 300m instead of 2.
I have not seen PON deployed here anymore since at least ~2 years.
Fiber itself is so cheap, my 9 flat unit just has a patch box in the basement with 12 fibers, and that's it. they do not even care to match them actual demand, 12, 24, 48 is what they do here...

https://imgur.com/a/PrnX8VA that's how it looked in my buildings basement when they first hooked the panel up.

PON also has higher risk of branch failures induced by bad customer equipment and since customer can use their own equipment here, by law, PON might be problematic for the whole PON-splitted branch.

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FriendlyDespot t1_iwvh773 wrote

> I am not sure but a PON-Splitter is almost certainly more expensive than say blowing in 12 fibers over 300m instead of 2.

Like I said, in suburbs and exurbs you're not just hanging 12 strands in point-to-point deployments, you're hanging 144s or 288s down long roads. If a driver takes out a pole in bad weather at night, then with a PON deployment your fiber guys have to splice maybe 2-4 pairs, while with a point-to-point deployment they're sitting there all night in shitty weather splicing up to 288 strands and taking a whole lot longer to get customers back online.

A splitter for PON is the same as a splitter for anything else, and they're super cheap commodity items. Pig-tailed cassettes are less than $1 per split in bulk.

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doommaster t1_iwvmupa wrote

ok, it is all underground here anyways, risks of fibers ever getting damaged like that is down 0.
Even my parents home/village has P2P all the way.

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FriendlyDespot t1_iwvnmfn wrote

Almost all suburban and exurban FTTx in the United States (where the article here is about) is aerial fiber slung from utility poles.

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rsta223 t1_iwvzwla wrote

Not in my suburb. Our city-run fiber is all buried.

(FTTH is fantastic too - I'll be super disappointed if I ever have to move away from my symmetric gig)

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