re: Moto Gets a Piece of Verizon FTTPEveryone knows that AFC's BPON price was so low that they could hardly make a profit on the OLT/ONU units, especially since they failed to win SBC's business.
If Motorola is getting a small slice of the original AFC business while matching AFC's price, than this is truely a disappointing outcome for the whole FTTP business. I would like to believe that VZ has seen the error in its ways and decided to pay for a quality system, but something tells me that's not the case.
re: Moto Gets a Piece of Verizon FTTPI got a laugh out of..
"Still, sources close to Tellabs say the abrupt introduction of a totally new Motorola fiber access platform raises the question of how fully baked the product really is."
This after they (i.e. AFC) won the original business with vaporware at profit-preventing prices.
It is the limberger telling the Velveeta it stinks!
re: Moto Gets a Piece of Verizon FTTPWhat Krish really wanted to say was "We sold vapourware and the customer realized when we never got the return path working right. So Moto's got the indside track and we may get ejected to a non-track yet again by Alcatel in the near future."
"When asked whether Tellabs' account will continue to grow in light of Motorola's contract award, Prabhu replied: "You should ask the customer, but from my experience the RBOCs are motivated to work with one supplier for 90 percent [of their needs], and we have the inside track on that businessGǪ But I feel uncomfortable speaking on behalf of our customers.""
re: Moto Gets a Piece of Verizon FTTP"we(AFC) never got the return path working right"
From my experience 90% of the engineering effort in a PON system is devoted to the return path. If the return path has problems than IMHO Tellabs still does not have a PON protuct.
The usual problem is getting the Burst mode TIA/LA and CDR to work with the required sensitivity without overloading when the TIA input when the signal switches between strong and weak laser sources. Having the right BMLD helps a lot with this problem, but I'm just guessing....
I'd appreciate any details on Tellabs FFTP problems if soemone wants to share them. optoslob
re: Moto Gets a Piece of Verizon FTTPI think that AFC is buying their way out of this problem with an Xcvr rather than doing a discrete design. Going all the way back to the Marconi/Reltec days it was common knowledge that the Bedford team wasn't very good.
re: Moto Gets a Piece of Verizon FTTPI don't understand, what does Marconi/Reltec have to do with AFC's PON design? Did they take over the design of AFC's ONT?
re: Moto Gets a Piece of Verizon FTTP The difficult optics problems with PON reside in the OLT not the ONT. It seems unlikely that the Texas group would be responsible for all the problems if the weren't designing the OLT as well as the ONT. FSAN compliant ONT optics modules are available, good luck finding an FSAN compliant OLT module though.
re: Moto Gets a Piece of Verizon FTTPCan anyone tell me how I would go about estimating how many ASX2200 would be deployed per million homes passed? What variables would you use (take rate, etc.) to come to your conclusion.
If Motorola is getting a small slice of the original AFC business while matching AFC's price, than this is truely a disappointing outcome for the whole FTTP business. I would like to believe that VZ has seen the error in its ways and decided to pay for a quality system, but something tells me that's not the case.
Anyone care to share the details?