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Interesting GPON tutorial
I found an interesting GPON tutorial that describes the basics of GPON systems.
It is from FTTXtra and you can find it here.
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apfutura has just released a white paper about connectors for FTTH network. It describes the different deployment strategies and where connectors and splices should be used.
You can find it in the white papers section of apfutura. The paper is in spanish.
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One of the bad things of our broadband connections here in Catalonia, is upstream speed.
A couple of weeks ago, a very polite girl from Telefonica phoned me to upgrade my ADSL (for free) to get 10Mbps. I asked her about whether upstream speed was also improved and the reply was… but… what the hell is [...]
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Talking about the deployment of broadband networks, one of the points that will be more relevant in the future is the power efficiency of the access solution.
Estimate power consumption depending on the technology, and comparing PON against other existing technologies is as follows:
PON: 0.5 W/user
ADSL/VDSL: 1 to 2 W/user
FTTH P2P: 3 W/user
This means that although [...]
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bandwidth or latency?
While checking the latest news about broadband I have seen a CMT blog post that linked to the following blog:
More bandwidth ― less delay, less latency
This is somehow related to my post of last week about network neutrality and peer to peer. I fully support the position of Brough Turner but I wanted to also [...]
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whitepaper release
apfutura has just released a whitepaper about different access topologies (PON, P2P and Active Ethernet).
It is written in Spanish.
Your comments are very welcome.
You can download it from here: P2P, PON comparison
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Carlos Bock
