| 3 Jun 2025 |
 K900 | Yes | 13:58:58 |
 magic_rb | Is the gpon i have here running some kind of linux or do they tend to run some embedded cursed thing? | 14:01:24 |
| magic_rb | Its some nokia box i think | 14:01:33 |
| magic_rb | Yeah nokia | 14:01:48 |
 emily | "the GPON" could probably use disambiguation. | 14:04:43 |
| emily | do you mean the ONT? | 14:04:46 |
| magic_rb | Uh | 14:05:02 |
| magic_rb | I would send a picture | 14:05:15 |
| magic_rb | But yeah | 14:05:18 |
| magic_rb | Thingie that i plug in ethernet into on the wall | 14:05:33 |
| emily | a box you have in your property that takes fibre optic in and spits out twisted pair or similar? | 14:05:41 |
| emily | right. | 14:05:45 |
| magic_rb | And it plugs into a fiber terminator box thingie | 14:05:47 |
| emily | that's the ONT which is basically a modem. | 14:05:54 |
| magic_rb | Like slides on | 14:05:52 |
| emily | I think that the vast majority of their job is just done in dumb hardware? | 14:06:08 |
| emily | but they might very well have some Linux thing for monitoring or whatever. | 14:06:18 |
| emily | don't quote me on that though, I'm not an expert. | 14:06:23 |
| emily | I guess the fact that all the SFP+ modules for it seem to run Linux implies that maybe there's actual smarts? | 14:06:39 |
| emily | I think calling it AON when you're talking about wiring up your home is weird? | 14:07:26 |
| emily | you could consider your home an optical distribution network but I think you generally, like, wouldn't. | 14:07:36 |
| emily | that's just a normal Ethernet network. | 14:07:51 |
| magic_rb | But like, isnt aon a normal ethernet network mostly | 14:08:47 |
| magic_rb | Like aon is just media converters no | 14:08:53 |
| emily | if you want to wire up your place with fibre you'll want a switch that takes SFP+ modules and fibre transceivers. though AOCs or just DACs are also an option, depending on how big your place is and what your options are in terms of running stuff around the place? | 14:08:53 |
| magic_rb | What AOC and whats DAC | 14:09:19 |
| emily | that's my understanding, yeah, but I think AON is specifically the term for "when you just do normal fibre-optic Ethernet stuff for fibre-to-the-X" | 14:09:21 |
| emily | so using the term for a network that spans a few metres feels weird | 14:09:42 |
| emily | because it's not like you'd ever pick PON for the usecase. | 14:09:54 |
| emily | or are going to be digging up roads to lay fibre. | 14:10:06 |
