RBI Cabinets are they capable of having GPON cards/boards fitted?

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godber

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#142437 13-Mar-2014 08:57

Hi

Can RBI cabinets have GPON OLT line cards fitted in addition to the ADSL/ADSL2/VDSL cards?

Just noticed some of the products from the manufacturers seem to support this so was wondering if the 'products' fitted the the cabinets have that capability.

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#1004703 13-Mar-2014 09:42

The other complexity is that the Copper network is a physically different network from the Fibre one. So if you were going to have the OLT cards in the Copper ISAMs then you would be delivering Fibre services over a Copper handover.

It's a completely different stack and I don't think there is any desire to deliver services from the same ISAM due to how the two networks are completely different.

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#1007819 18-Mar-2014 08:15

godber: Hi

Can RBI cabinets have GPON OLT line cards fitted in addition to the ADSL/ADSL2/VDSL cards?

Just noticed some of the products from the manufacturers seem to support this so was wondering if the 'products' fitted the the cabinets have that capability.

Many Thanks

The simple answer is yes but....

as has already been commented on there are many reasons why they arent (at this point in time) but it mostly boils down to the cost vs revenue / service quality

Simply the cost (includeing loss of revenue/service quality of other options that could have been installed in the same 'space') of installing GPON OLTs directly into RBI cabinets far out ways the revenue/ service quality boost that it can generate - when the cost of a centraly based GPON shelf and optical spliting at cabinets & smaller exchanges is far lower with an effective no loss of service quality.

I know of one GPON Self that currently has connected 8 rural schools connected off just one card (with the furtherest being 25-30kms from the GPON) via verious local and remote spliters and all have effective service.