[79972] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Offering Naked DSL in Northeast...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Tue Apr 19 13:49:27 2005
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:47:39 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <426421E3.6040201@ij.net>; from Andy Johnson <andyjohnson@ij.net> on Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 05:08:51PM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 05:08:51PM -0400, Andy Johnson wrote:
> Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> > What possible technical issue could exist that to don't have to wire the
> > dslam to a pots splitter?
> >
> > Actually, even if they did wire it to a pots splitter, and there was no
> > pots line present, it'd still work.
>
> My speculation is that their billing/accounting system is based on a
> POTs number, and since these customers will not need one, they will have
> administrative errors managing accounts.
Their DSL OAM&P, at least in VerizonFL territory, is indeed tied to the
associated voice DN; they don't even do *ticket* numbers at the
consumer level: the tickets are tied to the DN as well.
> Since VZ is doing their FTTP rollout, I imagine they have been tying
> new customers to Physical Addresses now instead, moving away from the
> old POTS based system. Again, all speculation based on how I see the
> DSL/FTTP order process taking place now.
And I've just heard from a customer for FTTP in Tampa that he loves the
speed (13/1.2 stable)... but they're PPPoE at the box. <sigh>
Cheers,
-- jra
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