The CLEC that I do some contract work for uses a basic single port ethernet only Comtrend 5072T ADSL2+ modem for all residential customers and business customers who don't have a bonded connection. Very reliable modem. The 5071 had bad powersupplies, but seemed worked better on loops with lousy stats. I think their idea is less tech support calls when a customer complains that they cannot connect a wifi device or doesn't know what the password is. Less things to break or have to maintain. The CLEC tells the customer to buy their own wireless router which 95% of the customers already have or have no issues in buying. For the business customers who have a bonded ADSL2+ connection, they use a Zyxel VMG4325 modem/router/wifi CPE device. It has a lot of configuration options. I'm not sure how reliable they are. I've been on a few trouble calls where I had to replace a questionable modem or the modem didn't like when one of the two bonded loops had issues (modem wouldn't pass upstream traffic instead of just knocking out the bad loop). The CLEC doesn't use PPPoE at all. The LEC in this state (Fairpoint) uses similar hardware. I think Fairpoint has a Comtrend provisioning box to push out the PPPoE settings for Comtrend modems which is really handy for them. Hope this helps in some limited way. Regards, Joshua Zukerman Snow Pond Technology Group Inc. www.snowpondtech.com On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 8:50 AM, Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
After a few off-list responses (and a couple on) encouraging me to use NANOG, here we go...
I've recently walked in to a voice\DSL CLEC that has basically been left to entropy for the last ten years. A lot of the core systems just work, but a lot of things aren't exactly managed the best. They run a Calix\Occam ADSL2+\VDSL infrastructure. For those of you doing DSL, what CPE are you using? I'm looking at one that's just a basic modem where I have a more sophisticated router (or ATA\voice gateway) behind it and then one more generic for residential settings with WiFi and all that jazz. We're kinda debating whether we go just dumb Wi-Fi or something more advanced\powerful. I've heard a lot of good about the Calix GigaFamily in that regard.
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