[168914] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SIP on FTTH systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Thu Feb 6 11:52:41 2014
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 17:52:28 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
In-Reply-To: <52F3BA7F.1050404@vaxination.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote:
> You do not want the incumbent/wholesaler to perform DHCP. This is a HUGE
> headache. We have that in Canada for cable wholesale (TPIA). The
> incumbent has to micromanage each ISPs IP blocks and carve subnets for
> each CMTS (for cable).
You could have the wholesaler do DHCP inspection and antispoofing etc
based on that, but not actually do the DHCP servering.
> For as much as everyone hates PPPoE, it makes for managememnt of a
> wholesale systems much much easier.
FTTH is supposed to be for higher speeds, putting PPPoE in there makes it
a lot more expensive than it has to be.
> Ideally, there would be some protocol where the CPE would setup a layer
> 2 SVC to the ISP, after which the ISP can provide DHCP services etc.
I don't see that needed, doesn't the wholesaler already know what port has
chosen what ISP and can set up L2 to that ISP?
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
