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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (30172)	6/11/2009 3:30:00 PM
From: ftth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

If I recall (and I may not), the BPON and GPON standards are specified at 2 tiers of distance, 10km (about 6.2 miles) and 20 km. Many US metro areas are quite a lot larger than 12 mile radius, but I have no idea re: France. I'm sure there are proprietary length-extended products on the market, but I wonder how much of a premium. I imagine a lot of rural FTTH deployments would need a lot more than 20km, and even then, they wouldn't be very dense wire centers. For enterprise applications, I suppose there are some spread-out corporate headquarters in various US metro areas that exceed 20km as well.