Rate shaping in Active E FTTx networks

Fri Jul 27 12:16:10 UTC 2012

Many CPE platforms have the rate limit built in. Some (eg: Zhone) do this in 1mbps increments. Ideally there would be some greater level of granularity but it seems to work. You can obviously police on the other end as well if required. 

Jared Mauch

On Jul 26, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Jason Lixfeld <jason at lixfeld.ca> wrote:

> So in terms of PIR for Internet access, is there some magic box that sits between the various subscriber aggregation points and the core, which takes care of shaping the subscriber's Internet access PIR, while making sure that the any preferential treatment of interactive services is performed.