On May 15, 2014, at 1:11 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei <[email protected]> wrote:
> > It had been my impression that ONTs, like most other consumer modems, > came with built-in router capabilities (along with ATA for voice). > > The assertion that ONTs have built-in routing capabilities has been > challenged. > > Can anyone confirm whether ONTs generally have routing (aka: home router > that does the PPPoE or DHCP and then NAT for home) capabilities? > > Are there examples where a telco has deployed ONTs with the router > built-in and enabled ? Or would almost all FTTH deployments be made with > any routing disabled and the ONT acting as a pure ethernet bridge ? Some are and some don't. For example the ZHONE active ethernet boxes are Linux on the inside and you can do a variety of different things with them, either making them do the NAT or be bridged back to the aggregation gear. - jared
