[160502] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Helms)
Wed Feb 6 18:11:15 2013
In-Reply-To: <5112E110.2090400@vaxination.ca>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 18:11:02 -0500
From: Scott Helms <khelms@zcorum.com>
To: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> However, the australian NBN model is far superior because it enables far
> more flexibility such as multicasting etc. PPPoE is useless overhead if
> you have the right management tools to point a customer to his ISP. (and
> it also means that the wholesale infrastructure can be switch based
> intead of router based).
>
I'd agree. Its a better way of doing L2 unbundling than PPPoE. Its just
PPPoE had the sharing concept baked into it so it was easy for most
operators to use historically.
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