[89597] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Security control in DSL access network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Caban)
Tue Mar 28 07:14:02 2006
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:13:07 -0500
From: William Caban <william.caban@netxar.com>
To: Christian Kuhtz <christian@kuhtz.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <EC04C369-0793-4FE7-BE6C-2E7665D9A87E@kuhtz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> An E-Series is not a DSLAM, it's a BRAS. Totally different function.
> A BRAS terminates subscriber sessions, a DSLAM terminates xDSL lines.
> Some DSLAMs act as mini BRAS these days. But an E-Series is not a DSLAM.
>
> Is this where your confusion is? You really mean to be talking about
> BRAS?
Ooops! Yeah! I don't know what I was thinking when I mixed the two. I've
been talking about the BRAS. The DSLAMs that I've worked with, Stingers
and Paradyne, none support tens of thousands. Definitively not. Sorry
about the mix up.
So for the previous emails: 's/DSLAM/BRAS/g'
-W
