Many thanks for the answers so far. On 14-05-15 13:35, Clayton Zekelman wrote:
The assertion that ONTs have built-in routing capabilities has been challenged.
By who?
A rather large company in Canada whose name contains the last name of the inventor of the Telephone :-) (actually from their Atlantic Canada arm). I know that Bell Canada's FTTH deployment includes a Sagemcom VDSL modem after the ONT. It uses it as plain router in FTTH because it supports twin VLANs (one for internet and other for IPTV) and I guess they figured it would be easier to standarize on a single router across its DSL and FTTH footprint. Not sure what Bell Aliant uses. My argument had been that in a wholesale context, the Sagemcom must not be included when wholesale service since it is not necessary.