Hi, If by FTTH you mean the ADSL2+/VDSL offering they packaged as Fibe (yes the named it that).
It is available to resellers... /wave ----- Alain Hebert aheb...@pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. 50 boul. St-Charles P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7 Tel: 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.net Fax: 514-990-9443 On 02/06/13 18:02, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote: > On 13-02-06 17:12, Scott Helms wrote: >> Correct, there are few things that cost nothing, but the point is here that >> PPPoE has been successful for open access to a far greater degree than any >> other technology I'm aware of > By default, Telus in western Canada has deployed ethernet based DSL for > wholesale, although PPPoE is available. Its own customers are ethernet > based wth DHCP service. > > Some of the ISPs have chosen PPPoE since it makes it easier to do usage > accounting at the router (since packets are already asscoated with the > PPPoE session account). > > The difference is that Telus had purchased/developed software that made > it easy to change the PVC to point a user to one ISP or the other, so > changing ISPs is relatively painless. Bell Canada decided to abandon > etyernet based DSL and go PPPoE because it didn't want to develop that > software. > > Bell is deploying PPPoE for its FTTH (which is not *yet) available to > wholesalers, something I am hoping to help change in the coming months) > > > However, the australian NBN model is far superior because it enables far > more flexibility such as multicasting etc. PPPoE is useless overhead if > you have the right management tools to point a customer to his ISP. (and > it also means that the wholesale infrastructure can be switch based > intead of router based). > > > >