[147324] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GPON Vendors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Dec 7 02:49:42 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <201112071125.22810.mtinka@globaltransit.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 23:43:20 -0800
To: mtinka@globaltransit.net
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In any such vendor choice, I'd say make sure that they have workable
IPv6 before making any major investments. Otherwise, you've got a
dead-end platform that won't serve you very well for very many years.
Owen
On Dec 6, 2011, at 7:25 PM, Mark Tinka wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 07, 2011 03:52:20 AM Josh V. Hoppes
> wrote:
>
>> Due to unforeseen circumstances we need to consider
>> alternative vendors for our GPON system, moving away
>> from Motorola. We wanted to throw out a line and find
>> out what other networks have deployed and what
>> experiences they have had positive or negative with
>> them. Thanks in advance for any replies.
>
> We're using Huawei for this.
>
> It's a stable system, and they do this quite well. Watch out
> for the EMS though; it's great for management and
> provisioning, but customer migration is not supported (yet).
>
> The ONU that ships from Huawei is also not terribly good as
> a clever CPE. So if you're thinking of doing interesting
> things, suggest you use their ONU as a bridge and have
> something else terminating the PPPoE/DHCP sessions.
>
> Otherwise, I'd certainly recommend looking at Huawei for
> this. We've been reasonably happy using them for our FTTH
> and IPTv deployment.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark.
