On 10/Feb/15 21:35, Frank Bulk wrote:
Unless each customer has in their own L3 domain, you'll also want some kind of L2 isolation between ports (and also MFF) and IP source address verification (so that people can't spoof addresses) for both DHPC and static IP customers. And don't forget the IPv6 equivalents.
You can get all that in a decent Active-E-based AN (as you would in a GPON AN). But then the price starts to go up if you want this in software as opposed to doing funky things. Cisco's ME2600X was, for me, one of the first proper Active-E FTTH AN's with features required in FTTH deployments (split horizon for Layer 2 customer separation, DHCP Option 82 support, per-port level trTCM ingress and egress policing and queuing, EVC's, e.t.c.). I understand it is now being replaced by the ASR920, which is a little odd if you look at port density differences between the two alone. For the GPON-centric, it is also being replaced by Cisco's ME4605 GPON AN. Final date to buy any ME2600X's will be June 2015. Mark.