At 01:11 PM 15/05/2014, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote:
It had been my impression that ONTs, like most other consumer modems, came with built-in router capabilities (along with ATA for voice).
The assertion that ONTs have built-in routing capabilities has been challenged.
By who?
Can anyone confirm whether ONTs generally have routing (aka: home router that does the PPPoE or DHCP and then NAT for home) capabilities?
All the unit's I've seen have this capability. We don't use it though.
Are there examples where a telco has deployed ONTs with the router built-in and enabled ? Or would almost all FTTH deployments be made with any routing disabled and the ONT acting as a pure ethernet bridge ?
No way to tell, since configuring routing capability in a router that has it built in is a relatively trivial task. It would be like asking how many people use the "bagel" button on their toaster, if it has this capability built in. --- Clayton Zekelman Managed Network Systems Inc. (MNSi) 3363 Tecumseh Rd. E Windsor, Ontario N8W 1H4 tel. 519-985-8410 fax. 519-985-8409