[AusNOG] Anyone run across any incompatibilities between Telstra's NEC DSLAM's and Cisco ADSL routers?

[Daniel Hooper]

Hi,

Seen something similar in Kalgoorlie WA about 5-6 years ago.

A provider had rolled out about 30-40 Cisco 8xx's, unfortunately I didn't know what DSLAM gear was in the exchanges but they quickly had us run around and deploy Dlink ADSL routers& return the cisco's.

Later down the track the provider installed its own DSLAM's so I never found out the cause of the problem.

Possibly it was just a large cock up on the providers behalf as I had plenty of other customers running on Telstra based DSLAM equipment with Cisco's at the time and the provider had not applied a firmware update to the DSL interface.

It was just really odd though that they replaced the lot with DLINK's and then rolled out their own DSLAM's.

Regards,

Daniel Hooper | Systems Administrator | Emerge Technologies | ph 08 9080 5100 | fax 08 9021 0222 | 3/72 Brookman St, Kalgoorlie WA, 6430 | dhooper at emerge.net.au<mailto:dhooper at emerge.net.au>

From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Justin Twiss
Sent: Tuesday, 16 November 2010 2:05 PM
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Subject: [AusNOG] Anyone run across any incompatibilities between Telstra's NEC DSLAM's and Cisco ADSL routers?


Hi guys (&gals!)

Just wondering if anyone else has run across issues with ADSL reliability between Telstra's NEC DSLAM's and Cisco ADSL routers?

Got a client down in Henderson WA who's having all sorts of reliability issues and Telstra have come back and advised that the Cisco ADSL router (877) is conflicting with the NEC gear in the Exchange...


Personally, just sounds like Telstra's trying to fob off the customer to me (given, if someone asked me for a reliable rock-solid ADSL router, I'd point them to the 877 (or above)) but just thought I'd double check before going to the hassle of configuring a non-cisco device for the site...


Off-list responses are probably better and I'll summarise to the list if it's suitable to do so...



-JT

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