FTTx Active-Ethernet Hardware

Carlos Alcantar carlos at race.com
Wed Feb 11 05:11:28 UTC 2015


We run Calix GPON / AE Platform works fairly nicely but does have it¹s
cost.


Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / carlos at race.com / http://www.race.com
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On 2/10/15, 1:27 PM, "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:

>
>On 10/Feb/15 21:35, Frank Bulk wrote:
>> 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.
>
>You can get all that in a decent Active-E-based AN (as you would in a
>GPON AN). But then the price starts to go up if you want this in
>software as opposed to doing funky things.
>
>Cisco's ME2600X was, for me, one of the first proper Active-E FTTH AN's
>with features required in FTTH deployments (split horizon for Layer 2
>customer separation, DHCP Option 82 support, per-port level trTCM
>ingress and egress policing and queuing, EVC's, e.t.c.).
>
>I understand it is now being replaced by the ASR920, which is a little
>odd if you look at port density differences between the two alone.
>
>For the GPON-centric, it is also being replaced by Cisco's ME4605 GPON AN.
>
>Final date to buy any ME2600X's will be June 2015.
>
>Mark.
>
>




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