[171854] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FTTH ONTs and routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Mezei)
Thu May 15 14:14:46 2014
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Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 13:43:08 -0400
From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
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Many thanks for the answers so far.
On 14-05-15 13:35, Clayton Zekelman wrote:
>>The assertion that ONTs have built-in routing capabilities has been
>>challenged.
>
> By who?
A rather large company in Canada whose name contains the last name of
the inventor of the Telephone :-) (actually from their Atlantic Canada arm).
I know that Bell Canada's FTTH deployment includes a Sagemcom VDSL modem
after the ONT. It uses it as plain router in FTTH because it supports
twin VLANs (one for internet and other for IPTV) and I guess they
figured it would be easier to standarize on a single router across its
DSL and FTTH footprint.
Not sure what Bell Aliant uses.
My argument had been that in a wholesale context, the Sagemcom must not
be included when wholesale service since it is not necessary.