Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

Fri Feb 8 14:39:13 UTC 2013

    Hi,

    If by FTTH you mean the ADSL2+/VDSL offering they packaged as Fibe
(yes the named it that).

    It is available to resellers...  /wave

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On 02/06/13 18:02, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote:
> On 13-02-06 17:12, Scott Helms wrote:
>> Correct, there are few things that cost nothing, but the point is here that
>> PPPoE has been successful for open access to a far greater degree than any
>> other technology I'm aware of
> By default, Telus in western Canada has deployed ethernet based DSL for
> wholesale, although PPPoE is available. Its own customers are ethernet
> based wth DHCP service.
>
> Some of the ISPs have chosen PPPoE since it makes it easier to do usage
> accounting at the router (since packets are already asscoated with the
> PPPoE session account).
>
> The difference is that Telus had purchased/developed software that made
> it easy to change the PVC to point a user to one ISP or the other, so
> changing ISPs is relatively painless. Bell Canada decided to abandon
> etyernet based DSL and go PPPoE because it didn't want to develop that
> software.
>
> Bell is deploying PPPoE for its FTTH (which is not *yet) available to
> wholesalers, something I am hoping to help change in the coming months)
>
>
> However, the australian NBN model is far superior because it enables far
> more flexibility such as multicasting etc. PPPoE is useless overhead if
> you have the right management tools to point a customer to his ISP. (and
> it also means that the wholesale infrastructure can be switch based
> intead of router based).
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