RG13
Pro Member
As a follow-on to the article, I thought it would be good to add a discussion here given the comments format is a bit of a PITA.
Figured I'd start off with my 2p.
ToS, ToS, ToS.
I have the 8Gb package because why not. There has been, up to this point, absolutely nothing that would, in a single use scenario, leverage that throughput. The closest is Steam, pulling 2.2Gb at best, which doesn't use P2P for distribution anyway. Any P2P client notwithstanding, its real advantage is heavy, multiple stream use. Even in a household with several people streaming 4K content concurrently, you'd never hit that. Even multiple Kaleidescape streams won't come close.
While I've not read the terms of service in depth, I'd imagine that use cases where you could properly leverage this throughput will be frowned upon. Hosting a website with little traffic is one thing. Hosting a file server with multiple clients may be something else.
That said, while a 50 (40)Gb package is cool on paper, as alluded to in the comments, virtually no one will be able to leverage it.
As for the suggestion about overall capacity, offering a single client this doesn't matter. Now, I'm not 100% familiar with OLTs and their internal topology, but the suggestion with respect to split ratio...does it matter? The main downside is knocking out that many more subscribers should a hardware issue present itself. If over-subscription is a concern, would you not simply rate limit throughput for a given subscriber? Now, I hate the notion of intentionally creating an over-subscription topology. Since the specs of the OLT intending to be used are unknown, I'll use the 6330-48 as an example.
480Gb at best throughput. It claims it can handle 6,144 subscribers. Probably goes without saying you're not giving each 10Gb (or maybe it does?). Even at 1Gb you're already nearly 13x oversubscribed. I appreciate the case of averaging out data patterns and the like, but still.
Correct me if I'm well off base here with respect to how OLTs are generally over-provisioned.
Only model ref I've seen for the 6400 series is the 6405-4. 4-port 50G interfaces. 2x uplinks of I'd assume 200Gb. Overall less capacity than my example.
Adtran Q: "What difference will 50GPON service make to your customers?"
Jeremy A: "...I'm not sure."
Truer words have never been spoken.
Figured I'd start off with my 2p.
ToS, ToS, ToS.
I have the 8Gb package because why not. There has been, up to this point, absolutely nothing that would, in a single use scenario, leverage that throughput. The closest is Steam, pulling 2.2Gb at best, which doesn't use P2P for distribution anyway. Any P2P client notwithstanding, its real advantage is heavy, multiple stream use. Even in a household with several people streaming 4K content concurrently, you'd never hit that. Even multiple Kaleidescape streams won't come close.
While I've not read the terms of service in depth, I'd imagine that use cases where you could properly leverage this throughput will be frowned upon. Hosting a website with little traffic is one thing. Hosting a file server with multiple clients may be something else.
That said, while a 50 (40)Gb package is cool on paper, as alluded to in the comments, virtually no one will be able to leverage it.
As for the suggestion about overall capacity, offering a single client this doesn't matter. Now, I'm not 100% familiar with OLTs and their internal topology, but the suggestion with respect to split ratio...does it matter? The main downside is knocking out that many more subscribers should a hardware issue present itself. If over-subscription is a concern, would you not simply rate limit throughput for a given subscriber? Now, I hate the notion of intentionally creating an over-subscription topology. Since the specs of the OLT intending to be used are unknown, I'll use the 6330-48 as an example.
480Gb at best throughput. It claims it can handle 6,144 subscribers. Probably goes without saying you're not giving each 10Gb (or maybe it does?). Even at 1Gb you're already nearly 13x oversubscribed. I appreciate the case of averaging out data patterns and the like, but still.
Correct me if I'm well off base here with respect to how OLTs are generally over-provisioned.
Only model ref I've seen for the 6400 series is the 6405-4. 4-port 50G interfaces. 2x uplinks of I'd assume 200Gb. Overall less capacity than my example.
Adtran Q: "What difference will 50GPON service make to your customers?"
Jeremy A: "...I'm not sure."
Truer words have never been spoken.























