[160457] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Helms)
Wed Feb 6 10:40:19 2013
In-Reply-To: <86txpppihe.fsf@seastrom.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 10:36:08 -0500
From: Scott Helms <khelms@zcorum.com>
To: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Robert E. Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com> wrote:
>
> If you were talking about layer 2 handoffs, your statement is perhaps
> even more untrue - active ethernet and PON layer 2 handoffs are
> approximately as easy as each other.
>
Perhaps you'd share some specifics? I certainly haven't worked on all of
the PON systems that are out there, but the ones I have worked one didn't
have (or I didn't find) a good way to separate traffic at layer 2 so that
several operators could handle their own Layer 3 provisioning for customers
on the same OLT.
>
> -r
>
> PS: The word is _conflating_, not _confounding_.
>
> Scott Helms <khelms@zcorum.com> writes:
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> > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Robert E. Seastrom <[[rs@seastrom.com]]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Scott Helms <[[khelms@zcorum.com]]> writes:
> >
> > > In that case its even harder. Before you even consider doing open
> > > access talk to your FTTx vendor and find out how many they have
> > done
> > > using the same architecture you're planning on deploying. Open
> > access
> > > in an active Ethernet install is actually fairly straight forward
> > but
> > > on a PON system its harder than a DOCSIS network.
> >
> > Categorically untrue. It is all a matter of where the splitters are
> > placed.
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> > You're confounding the layers of the network or perhaps I was being
> unclear
> > that I was talking about Layer 2 handoffs.
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> > A home run fiber plant architecture with an enormous patch
> > frame and
> > splitters provided by the open access provider if PON is their
> > technoogy of choice is indistinguishable from an active ethernet
> > install from an open access perspective.
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> > Again, I was speaking about Layer 2 open access.
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> >
> > -r
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> > Scott Helms
> > Vice President of Technology
> > ZCorum
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