Jean-Francois Mezei wrote:
This is where one has to be carefull. The wholesale scenario in Canada leaves indepdendant ISPs having to explain to their customers that they can't fix certain problems and that they must call the telco/cableco to get it fixed. (in the case of a certain cable company, they can't even call them, it has to be done by email with response of at least 48 hours).
So splitting responsabilities can be an annoyance if it becomes very visible to the end users.
No different from competing ISPs using DSL or PON.
Another aspect: customers espect to be able to switch seamlessly from one ISP to the next. But ISP-2 can't take over from ISP-1 until ISP-1 has relinquised control over the line to the end user.
No different from competing ISPs using DSL or PON.
In a layer 1 scenario, it means ISP-1 has to physically go and deinstall their CPE and disconnect strand from their OLT, and then ISP-2 can do the reverse and reconnect evrything to provide services.
No. Just say optical MDF.
What happens when ISP-1 isn't interested in a quick disconnect and ISP-2 has to wait days/weeks with end use without service ?
You assume ISP-1 quickly stop servicing the end user, don't you?
In a layer2 service, it is a matter of reconfiguring the OLT to pass ethernet packets to a different VLAN to a different ISP. No physical
What happens when OLT operator isn't interested in a quick reconfiguration, ISP-1 quickly stop servicing the end user and ISP-2 has to wait days/weeks with end user without service? Masataka Ohta