Hello community,
I have a very special question about any compatible SFP-fiber-optic module to use in GPON access networks?
Do you know some possible SFP-modules which are tested with Mikrotik hardware?
I would like to design a single OLT to many ONU network, but there are no good and professional informations available on the web..
Thank you very much!
I was trying to find out the same thing a year or so ago. I ended up just going with some Adtran TA 5000 head-end units and a thousands of cleint devices like the Iphotronix.
There is or was at least one SFP fiber module that claimed it could make a normal SFP interface participate in a GPON fiber network. I think it was made by Finisar. It is a SFP transceiver with built-in GPON or EPON ONU functions.
Try taking a look at: http://www.finisar.com/products/optical-modules/pon
My GPON fiber network is not installed or up and running yet. If I knew that Mikrotik could work in a GPON network, I could still use another 4,000 client-side Mikrotik devices then.
I am building a fiber to the home network in North Idaho and planning on offering 10 meg to 300 meg to each customer. Where each optical splitter uses only 8-way splits. This will enable every group of 8 customers per GPON splitter to hit 2-gig down and 1 gig up. Also planning on hundreds of splitters to handle thousands of customers. The stuff gets expensive and if Mikrotik had a GPON solution instead of active ethernet, I would be the first in line to want to try it out.
Where are you building your GPON network ?
Tom Jones
Something to consider with using any Mikrotik products in a PON network - if trying to use a special SFP (such as the Finisar with GPON built-into the SFP module) to a Mikrotik device ---- What about the IP-Phone ATA media electronics… You would need to use a network ATA instead of an ATA build directly into the customer equipment connected to the GPON fiber network.
Mikrotik - look and listen and consider… If Microtik supported the GPON market, the Mikrotik customer base could grow 100,000 times larger almost over night. What would Mikrotik do with orders in the 10,000 units per week or month ???
Almost forgot - take a look at this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ELISum9mSI
It looks like a Mikrotik using the SFP GPON electronics you are acking about.
Hi Tim,
sorry for the late response..
Well, we are implementing this in Italy, where the FTTH is growing very fast from day to day..
We actually have some infrastructure ready to be used, but we are no able to find a “pricely good” system.
Since we are working with Mikrotik from years and all the systems are running stable we would like to check the possibility to use it in this kind of environment..
We have 1 testsystem based on CISCO, but.. yeah… $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
You know?
AGREE !! THUMBS UP !!
But is there any Mikrotik stuff reading this posts?
yeah, looks good for the ONU side..
But it’s not possible to make the OLT side with Mikrotik.. 
??? Is there any mikrotik stuff reading this posts ??? 
Any news from mikrotik with FTTH OLT/ONT integration?
Fiat would be really cool stuff.
Sorry, but I think not one from MT staff is reading our posts..
I do think they read almost everything… most of the time…
I suspect the reason there is not a mikrotik-staff answer is because there is not a supported GPON solution.
Anybody who works with massive amounts of fiter-to-the-home already knows what GPON is and how much it is going to dominate the market for fiber growth in ftth networks. The silly thing is, excluding the a built-in ATA (built-in SIP IP phone electronics), the mikrotik would be great if the router O.S. had built-in driver & software of GPON.
Wouldnt it be great to see the following:
Adtran openly supports 3rd party products. All that is needed is some type if a mini-PCI ATA card and some support in the Mikrotik O.S. to understant how to function in a native GPON network. O-well… I currently have 3,000+ (non Mikrotik) devices still in the queue to be ordered from somebody else…
Mikrotik - wake up — This is a huge growing market you could almost dominate with just a firmware update.
Well I can confirm, the european market is growing no sorry, it’s EXPLODING on daily base..
It would be nice to know if there are already plans for implementing a GEPON solution or not..?!
currently we have nothing to offer to you in regard to GPON/PON
Thank you very much for response!
I’m sorry I couldn’t reach you in another way than posting to another topic.
Sorry to insist, but are there any plans for supporting it in the future?
Please consider supporting the GPON fiber-to-the-home market.
Mikrotik is just about the best low-cost WiFi, router, firewall, nat, bandwidth-tester, almost everything product on the market (in both software and hardware). I am sure all of us who post to this forum totally love the mikrotik products and know they are the best thing out there.
Some of us using these forums know the GPON FTTH market is a very large market and growing quickly. Even the FCC is pushing for FTTH network connections to just about every home in the United States and other countries are making huge steps to do the same. With future new customer FTTH connections far larger than hundreds of millions, there is a really really really huge market that Mikrotik could step into and dominate after the word got out about the Mikrotik products.
Just about all the Mikrotik parts are there right now. All that is needed is two things, GOPN software drivers and driver dupport for mini PCI-e ATA SIP cards.
Mikrotik is really great in the WiFi rural market, with GPON support, Mikrotik could be great in the GPON market also.
If I was a sales person or sales engineer with Mikrotik, I would be saying - whoooooo - take a look at the size of the GPON market - it is in the millions and millions and growing quickly.
Mikrotik is great - really great - I know Mikrotik would do very well be enterning the GPON FTTH market by simply making some additional software drivers inside the existing router os platform.
Tom Jones - Plant Engineer
Coeur d’Alene Tribe - Fiber to the home project
North Idaho
hello,
I’m also very interested in this topic. My provider connected me to a GPON network so I have a 1Gb optical connection. For now the optical cable goes into a Huawei HG8245H router, and next is connected to a CCR1036-12G-4S router. The problem is that I want to get rid of this Huawei router and connect the optical cable directly to my CCR1036-12G-4S router through a SFP module. Below are some details. As Mikrotik support suggested they don’t have any solution for GPONs, but anyway we are talking about SFP modules, so maybe there are some 3rd party vendors which provide such solutions. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
+1
For GPON (GEPON) implementation in Mikrotik ROS
For network termination there are already sfps which willl work, eg. from Finsair.
But very interesting would be OLT software/hardware in Router OS.
Go for 10G - PON
PON | Finisar www.finisar.com/products/optical-modules/pon PON sticks are SFP transceivers with built-in GPON or EPON ONU functions. EPON sticks comply with IEEE802.3ah EPON standard and optionally, CTC OAM …
GPON Stick - Pluggable SFP ONU - Finisar
Gesendet von meinem HTC Flyer P510e mit Tapatalk 2
Sure - we know about the finisar. The issue is that nobody seems to be using it or tested it in a Mikrotik.
Another issue is, this would be a Mikrotik non-supported configuration. If we have any problems, then we are on our own.
Another issue is, even if the finisar works, you only have the SFP talking - the Microtik still may not be compatible with the head-end GPON network electronics or admin/managing software. ((Such as configuration and UPS power outages not being seen by the head-end GPON electronics))
Another issue is, Mikrotik does not have any support or drivers for a PCI ATA sip card. So, you are again on your own to look at a third-party ethernet ATA sip device. Then you have to make it all work when the power goes out.
Another issue is, there are no drivers or software support in the Router OS to understand what a GPON even it and how to participate in the network.
OOOO sooo close - but without official Microtik supported drivers, I do not think it is a prudent investment to build a million+ dollar network using Mikrotik products that do not have GPON driver support. All it would take is software drivers and support for a PCI ATA sip device - then I would be willing to build up a test network and consider a large deployment install.
I am using Adtran TA5000 units for my GPON in my multi-city fiber-to-the-home networks, They (Adtran TA5000) have no idea what a Mikrotik even is - no drivers and no GPON compatibility
and new module ~100$ http://www.dlink.ru/ru/products/1383/1871.html
Yea - I see that D-Link has some GPON products right now. Just google “D-Link GPON” (or as an option try “aztech GPON” or “GPON OLT vendors”)
I suspect the D-Link hardware is actually just a normal wireless router that has a SFP port ( and the optional FSX ports to support VoIP to a standard analog telephone ) - but the D-Link firmware has been updated to support GPON standards.