Re: GPON Vendors

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

In any such vendor choice, I'd say make sure that they have workable
IPv6 before making any major investments. Otherwise, you've got a
dead-end platform that won't serve you very well for very many years.

Owen

On Dec 6, 2011, at 7:25 PM, Mark Tinka wrote:

> On Wednesday, December 07, 2011 03:52:20 AM Josh V. Hoppes 
> wrote:
>
> > Due to unforeseen circumstances we need to consider
> > alternative vendors for our GPON system, moving away
> > from Motorola.  We wanted to throw out a line and find
> > out what other networks have deployed and what
> > experiences they have had positive or negative with
> > them. Thanks in advance for any replies.
>
> We're using Huawei for this.
>
> It's a stable system, and they do this quite well. Watch out 
> for the EMS though; it's great for management and 
> provisioning, but customer migration is not supported (yet).
>
> The ONU that ships from Huawei is also not terribly good as 
> a clever CPE. So if you're thinking of doing interesting 
> things, suggest you use their ONU as a bridge and have 
> something else terminating the PPPoE/DHCP sessions.
>
> Otherwise, I'd certainly recommend looking at Huawei for 
> this. We've been reasonably happy using them for our FTTH 
> and IPTv deployment.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark.