FTTPandGPON

20 Years Working with AV Consultants—Here’s What Manufacturers Still Get Wrong..   I’ve spent the past 25 years working with—and inside—manufacturers across telecoms and AV. For most of that time, I’ve been on the front line with consultants—first as a solutions engineer, and more recently in technical sales. That vantage point has taught me one thing very clearly: there’s a persistent gap between what manufacturers think they’re delivering and what consultants actually need. So what have I learnt?  For an industry built on communication…the AV sector I think is still rather bad at communicating with one of its most important audiences – consultants and specifiers. These are the people who ultimately shape the systems and decide which technologies and products make it into projects. But it seems that time and again, manufacturers make their jobs harder than it needs to be. This isn’t so much a technology problem, as it is a mindset problem. My take on is this? It’s is because ...

  Currently, one of the popular technologies for building Fibre-to-the-X (FTTx) networks is Passive Optical Network (PON) technology. We use GPON technology extensively as it makes it affordable to offer high-bandwidth services like digital television, IP telephony, and broadband internet, it is widely used. GPON is progressively now moving toward 10G GPON, which includes XG PON and XGS PON, as consumer demand for high bandwidth keeps rising.   We get asked which of these is the best technology to use in projects (as fastest doesn’t always mean best) and the answer is typically, as you’d expect, ‘depends on the requirement’, usually taking many factors into consideration – access speed, number of users, cost, distance between locations etc…   This side-by-side breakdown of GPON vs XG-PON vs XGS-PON may help clarify a few things help understand performance, use cases, and upgrade paths.   GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) Standard: ITU-T G.984 Speeds...