We run Calix GPON / AE Platform works fairly nicely but does have it¹s cost.
Carlos Alcantar Race Communications / Race Team Member 1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010 Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com <http://www.race.com/> On 2/10/15, 1:27 PM, "Mark Tinka" <mark.ti...@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. > >
