[171839] in North American Network Operators' Group
FTTH ONTs and routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Mezei)
Thu May 15 13:14:09 2014
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Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 13:11:20 -0400
From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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It had been my impression that ONTs, like most other consumer modems,
came with built-in router capabilities (along with ATA for voice).
The assertion that ONTs have built-in routing capabilities has been
challenged.
Can anyone confirm whether ONTs generally have routing (aka: home router
that does the PPPoE or DHCP and then NAT for home) capabilities?
Are there examples where a telco has deployed ONTs with the router
built-in and enabled ? Or would almost all FTTH deployments be made with
any routing disabled and the ONT acting as a pure ethernet bridge ?
(I appreciate your help on this as I am time constrained to do research).
