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

[Eric Dugas via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

I don't have any particular insights for Telus, but there is a huge thread about bypassing Bell ONTs on DSLReports: 
https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r32230041-Internet-Bypassing-the-HH3K-up-to-2-5Gbps-using-a-BCM57810S-NIC
Cheers,
Eric
On Oct 13 2020, at 9:38 pm, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com> wrote:
> 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.