[171843] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FTTH ONTs and routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Thu May 15 13:30:44 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <5374F538.5010108@vaxination.ca>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 13:18:23 -0400
To: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On May 15, 2014, at 1:11 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei =
<jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca> wrote:
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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).
>=20
> The assertion that ONTs have built-in routing capabilities has been
> challenged.
>=20
> Can anyone confirm whether ONTs generally have routing (aka: home =
router
> that does the PPPoE or DHCP and then NAT for home) capabilities?
>=20
> 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 ?
Some are and some don't. For example the ZHONE active ethernet boxes =
are Linux on the inside and you can do a variety of different things =
with them, either making them do the NAT or be bridged back to the =
aggregation gear.
- jared=
