Can OLTs separate port management by admin user?

Wed Feb 6 16:39:44 UTC 2013

At the standards level, ANCP was designed to allow partitioning like 
that. however, work on applying ANCP (Access Network Control Protocol) 
to PON is just going through the IESG now, so the probability that it's 
implemented in the Calix devices is remote.

Tom T

On 06/02/2013 10:56 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Scott Helms" <khelms at zcorum.com>
>
>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Robert E. Seastrom <rs at seastrom.com>
>> wrote:
>
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>
> Can you separate the *control plan* on an ISP by ISP basis: is it
> possible to give ISPs whose clients are on specific ports of an access
> mux like an OLT *control over only those ports*, leaving card- and chassis-
> global functions for the L2 operator? (Possibly with the optimization
> of allowing card-global functions if all the ports on the card are owned
> by that operator, or unassigned.)
>
> It's a very good question, and the next nail I was going to hammer.
>
> I'm betting the answer is presently "no; you'll have to put a smart
> OAM&P layer in front of it", myself.
>
> Can anyone who's used such Access multiplexers comment on this?
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>