Residential GPON last mile for network engineers (Telus AS852 and others)

Wed Oct 14 01:38:10 UTC 2020

With the growth of gigabit class single fiber GPON last mile services, I
imagine a number of people reading the list must have subscribed to such by
now.

Something that I have observed, and shared observations with a number of
colleagues, is that very often a person who works for ($someAS) lives in a
location where you are effectively singlehomed to ($someotherAS). Maybe you
bought your house before you got a job with your current employer, or maybe
the network you work for doesn't do residential last mile service at all.
Perhaps you work remotely for a regional sized entity that's a long
distance away from where you live.

Therefore necessitating a choice of service from whatever facilities based
consumer-facing ISP happens to service your home.

For example, in Seattle, a number of people discovered that they could keep
the Centurylink GPON ONT, and remove the centurylink-provided router/modem
combo device. Provided that they were able to configure their own router
(small vyatta, pfsense box, mikrotik, whatever) to speak a certain VLAN tag
on its WAN interface and be a normal PPPoE / DHCP client.

I'm sure there are a lot of people who prefer to run their own home router
and wifi devices, and not rely upon a ($big_residential_isp) provided
all-in-one router/nat/wifi box with opaque configuration parameters, or no
ability to change configuration at all.

Any insights as to what the configuration of the Telus AS852 GPON network
looks would be helpful. Or other observations in general on
technically-oriented persons who are doing similar with other ILECs.
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