> As far as Community Fibre goes, I don't know what the switch gear is. I saw a passive patch panel on the roof of my old building where all the fibers from the

> As far as Community Fibre goes, I don't know what the switch gear is. I saw a passive patch panel on the roof of my old building where all the fibers from the individual apartments go into, beyond that I'm not sure whether it all gets flattened down to 1Gbps or something more meaty. Community Fibre installs as XGPON. So it all passive and gets aggregated down in building basements. And yes, they are very cagey when you ask them about contention or similar. I suspect they run things on the "hot" side.