Re: FTTx Active-Ethernet Hardware

[Carlos Alcantar <carlos () race com>]

We run Calix GPON / AE Platform works fairly nicely but does have it¹s
cost.


Carlos Alcantar
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On 2/10/15, 1:27 PM, "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka () seacom mu> wrote:

> 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.