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Re: Can OLTs separate port management by admin user?


From: Tom Taylor <tom.taylor.stds () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:39:44 -0500

At the standards level, ANCP was designed to allow partitioning like that. however, work on applying ANCP (Access Network Control Protocol) to PON is just going through the IESG now, so the probability that it's implemented in the Calix devices is remote.

Tom T

On 06/02/2013 10:56 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Helms" <khelms () zcorum com>

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Robert E. Seastrom <rs () seastrom com>
wrote:

...

Can you separate the *control plan* on an ISP by ISP basis: is it
possible to give ISPs whose clients are on specific ports of an access
mux like an OLT *control over only those ports*, leaving card- and chassis-
global functions for the L2 operator? (Possibly with the optimization
of allowing card-global functions if all the ports on the card are owned
by that operator, or unassigned.)

It's a very good question, and the next nail I was going to hammer.

I'm betting the answer is presently "no; you'll have to put a smart
OAM&P layer in front of it", myself.

Can anyone who's used such Access multiplexers comment on this?

Cheers,
-- jra



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