[151283] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Wed Mar 14 21:01:49 2012
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:00:57 -0400
In-Reply-To: <CAL9jLabVXdM1VhqUZ0qNv2CbO+Yo7m1y3AKDgLrnsecHVv7QsQ@mail.gmail.com>
(Christopher Morrow's message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:40:01 -0400")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Robert E. Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com> wrote:
>>
>> Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappydsl.net> writes:
>>
>>> I am not familiar with VZ's FIOS network...
>>> however I suspect that if they are using a Redback at the Headend, it
>>> would allow you to have a 'bridge' network with secure arp
>>> settings. (it's a feature that we have seen on Redback's...)
>>
>> AFAIK Verizon does not use Redback/Ericsson stuff for FIOS and never has.
>>
>> A cursory survey of two (older, BPON, Tellabs) builds found ethernet
>> OUI 00:90:1a, i.e. Juniper ERX.
>
> yes, all edge boxes for FIOS are ERX... better support for CALEA there
> was one of the major drivers.
So it was _one_ of the drivers, but was it a more major driver than
"for the love of God, not Redback!"? :)
-r
