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

[Peter Tiggerdine]

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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