Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

[swmike at swm.pp.se (Mikael Abrahamsson)]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Jason Baugher wrote:

> On the CO-side electronics, however... I think it's safe to say that you 
> can do GPON under $100/port. AE is probably going to run close to 
> $300/port. That's a pretty big cost difference, and if it were me I'd be 
> looking pretty hard at a PON deployment for the majority of the 
> customers along with a certain amount of fiber left over for those who 
> need special services.

How do you come to the $300 per AE port? When I look at it, I get around 
USD100-150 per AE port including SFP.

Also, I expect the customer end to be cheaper for AE than for PON, right?

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se