[151286] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Maurand)
Wed Mar 14 22:18:45 2012
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:14:36 -0400
From: Curtis Maurand <cmaurand@xyonet.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <8662e61xva.fsf@seastrom.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 3/14/2012 9:00 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> 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!"? :)
>
the last I knew, Verizon was an Alcatel house for switching and Alcatel
managed to get tcp/ip into their switching gear. so I'm left to wonder.
--C
