FTTx Active-Ethernet Hardware

Tue Feb 10 21:27:08 UTC 2015

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.