FTTx Active-Ethernet Hardware

Tue Feb 10 19:35:47 UTC 2015

Unless each customer has in their own L3 domain, you'll also want some kind
of L2 isolation between ports (and also MFF) and IP source address
verification (so that people can't spoof addresses) for both DHPC and static
IP customers.  And don't forget the IPv6 equivalents.

Frank

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From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Ray Soucy
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 7:31 AM
To: NANOG
Subject: FTTx Active-Ethernet Hardware

One thing I'm personally interested in is the growth of municipal FTTx
that's starting to happen around the US and possibly applying that
model to highly rural areas (e.g. 10 mile long town with no side
streets, existing utility polls, 250 or so homes) and doing a
realistic cost analysis of what that would take.

What options are out there for Active-Ethernet hardware.  Ideally
something that could handle G.8032 and 802.1ad in hardware for the
distribution side (24 or 48-port SFP metro switch) and something
inexpensive for the access side but still managed (e.g. a 4-port
switch with an SFP uplink supporting Q-in-Q).

I'm really looking for something cheap to keep costs down for a
proof-of-concept.  The stuff from Cisco and even Ciena is a bit more
expensive than my target.

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