FTTH ONTs and routers

Thu May 15 17:24:33 UTC 2014

I notice Cisco's new ME4600 ONT's come in two flavors, one (the
"Residential GateWay") with all the bells and whistles that you'd expect in
an all-in-one home router (voice ports, small ethernet switch, wifi access
point) and another (the "Single Family Unit") that looks a lot more basic
and is likely to be deployed as a bridge.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/me-4600-series-multiservice-optical-access-platform/datasheet-c78-730446.html

Aled

On 15 May 2014 18:11, Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog at vaxination.ca>wrote:

>
> It had been my impression that ONTs, like most other consumer modems,
> came with built-in router capabilities (along with ATA for voice).
>
> The assertion that ONTs have built-in routing capabilities has been
> challenged.
>
> Can anyone confirm whether ONTs generally have routing (aka: home router
> that does the PPPoE or DHCP and then NAT for home) capabilities?
>
> Are there examples where a telco has deployed ONTs with the router
> built-in and enabled ? Or would almost all FTTH deployments be made with
> any routing disabled and the ONT acting as a pure ethernet bridge ?
>
>
> (I appreciate your help on this as I am time constrained to do research).
>
>