<div dir="ltr">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.<div>
<br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div>
<div>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.</div><div><br></div></div>