Cable as Common Carrier (was Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS?)

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote:

I think that requirement still stands in Canada, but until newer standards-compliant cable modems become more common it's "hard" to do and so nobody's doing it yet (and there is some whining on both sides).

Our local cable provider pitched an MPLS-based VPN service to us yesterday. Basicly, they would group, by the MAC of the DOCSIS-compliant cable modem, our remote users into a common Layer-2 bucket and tunnel them directly to us, where we would handle DHCP handouts for the PCs and routing. Of course, they then told it it was probably a year away and our interest sagged significantly.