In any such vendor choice, I'd say make sure that they have workable IPv6 before making any major investments. Otherwise, you've got a dead-end platform that won't serve you very well for very many years.
Owen On Dec 6, 2011, at 7:25 PM, Mark Tinka wrote: > On Wednesday, December 07, 2011 03:52:20 AM Josh V. Hoppes > wrote: > >> Due to unforeseen circumstances we need to consider >> alternative vendors for our GPON system, moving away >> from Motorola. We wanted to throw out a line and find >> out what other networks have deployed and what >> experiences they have had positive or negative with >> them. Thanks in advance for any replies. > > We're using Huawei for this. > > It's a stable system, and they do this quite well. Watch out > for the EMS though; it's great for management and > provisioning, but customer migration is not supported (yet). > > The ONU that ships from Huawei is also not terribly good as > a clever CPE. So if you're thinking of doing interesting > things, suggest you use their ONU as a bridge and have > something else terminating the PPPoE/DHCP sessions. > > Otherwise, I'd certainly recommend looking at Huawei for > this. We've been reasonably happy using them for our FTTH > and IPTv deployment. > > Cheers, > > Mark.
