Sonic 10G ONT with SFP+ instead of RJ45?

[punipuni]

My live date is coming soon! Question.. does sonic offer the ONT w/ a SFP+ port instead of 10GBe? The Sonic help page shows AdTran ONT models w/ only RJ45.

[punipuni]

Guess I found my answer on another post: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=17486

[mcarlson2398]

That post doesn’t address it.

I think this is a case of "know your customer." We would have loved to deploy copper 10GBASE-T tech in our homes, but it is dead end technology with significant energy costs and a high carbon footprint. Copper 10GbE is just not a green solution. Not only do you have to run copper wires all throughout your house you are looking at up to 15W per port (switch port + NIC). I would be looking at over 100W 24/7 just for local network links. Not to mention the fact that it is more expensive than 10Gb fibre. Not even including the power costs. It also adds significant latency versus Fibre which you didn’t get with 1000BASE-T. Which impacts online gaming. Then you have the fact that it is an end of the line technology. It seams crazy that Sonic would sell 10g Fibre Internet and require a copper cable to use it?
I would gather that a lot of us have already purchased 10Gb SFP+ or 25Gb SFP28 switches and 10Gb firewalls already. We can afford to pay a little more for an SFP+ port .


https://community.fs.com/article/10gbas ... bling.html
https://wavesplitter.com/technical-colu ... 10gbase-t/
https://www.truenas.com/community/resou ... u-can.209/

[mabruce]

There really isn’t a vast array of consumer friendly 10 Gb gear, copper or fiber, so the market forces aren’t in favor of giving everyone fiber output from the ONT.

If you already have fiber in your walls and an actual need to distribute 10Gb to each location, then just get an SFP+ RJ45 module for your router and keep everything downstream on fiber. Only that one short link needs to be copper.

[kgc]

"It also adds significant latency versus Fibre which you didn’t get with 1000BASE-T"

10GBASE-T which is widely accepted as the standard data-center interconnection has a few *microseconds* more latency than an optical transceiver coupled with fiber. If you're interested in chasing nanoseconds, I'd actually recommend DACs which tend to have lower latency than both.