[AusNOG] 10G CPE (1RU?) recommendations?

Peter Tiggerdine ptiggerdine at gmail.com
Mon Aug 12 16:20:58 EST 2013


No sure it's just for troubleshooting purposes. I'd say it's more
about risk mitigation, service delivery assurance and protection of
the network come to mind.


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Luke Smith <luke at smith.name> wrote:
> Why bother selling "CPE" to a customer? Why not drop them a fibre and let
> them figure it out? As a customer I get a bit erked by Telcos insisting that
> they drop some kit in my rack when I've got something that will take the
> fibre directly already.
>
> All the arguments about "we want something we own at your end so we can
> troubleshoot it" seem a bit of a poor trade-off against the extra cost,
> complexity and reduced reliability.
>
> It seems to me that its just a legacy idea left over from the days when the
> telco had to supply an ISDN NTU that matched their network.
>
>
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