Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Fletcher Kittredge
Randy; Pricing aside, do you feel the Japanese have a good architecture for the last mile? Would it adapt well from an environment that is mostly multi-dwelling units (MDU) to one which is mostly single-dwelling units? Any thoughts on good places to start for an english language speaker to

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Fletcher Kittredge wrote: Pricing aside, do you feel the Japanese have a good architecture for the last mile? Would it adapt well from an environment that is mostly multi-dwelling units (MDU) to one which is mostly single-dwelling units? Any thoughts on good places to

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:58:48 CST, Will Clayton said: enable the masses to communicate and, at the same time, appease, for lack of a better word, those who would capitalize on the sheer lack of unified infrastructure. The same way we appeased them the *last* time we gave them incentives to

RE: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Rod Beck
Given the start up costs, it is not clear what is compelling. Here in Budapest I get Internet access for less than Euros. Roderick S. Beck Director of European Sales Hibernia Atlantic Budapest, New York, and Paris http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com -Original Message- From: Mikael

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Jack Bates
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: You might look into what's being done in Sweden then, here there are municipality networks who dig up the streets and does fiber to the individual house in suburbia (you have to trench your own land though, 4dm deep, 1-2dm wide, they only dig in the street put down

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Curtis Maurand
You might look into what's being done in Sweden then, here there are municipality networks who dig up the streets and does fiber to the individual house in suburbia (you have to trench your own land though, 4dm deep, 1-2dm wide, they only dig in the street put down the pipe in your trench).

RE: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Mackinnon, Ian
-Original Message- From: Curtis Maurand [mailto:cmaur...@xyonet.com] SNIP I'd look more to what they're doing in Rochester, NY: http://rocwiki.org/Sewer_Fiber_Optic_Network Run it in the sewers. The sewer system runs to every building and household in the municipality. No

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Fletcher Kittredge
Thanks for the pointers, Mikael. unfortunately, my Swedish is not much better than my Japanese... But it is a good start and I am sure I will find some sort of English description somewhere. I should have been a bit more explicit in my question: I am not concerned on the routing of the last

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Michael Holstein
I'd look more to what they're doing in Rochester, NY: http://rocwiki.org/Sewer_Fiber_Optic_Network Run it in the sewers. The sewer system runs to every building and household in the municipality. No need to re-trench anything. Ahh .. the TISP : http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Curtis Maurand
Mackinnon, Ian wrote: snip In the UK more homes have fixed wire telephony than mains sewers or water. Not sure what that means to this discussion :-) In the US as well, but if you're trying to run a new fiber network and you want it uderground, the sewers in metro areas are a good place to

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Fletcher Kittredge wrote: Thanks for the pointers, Mikael. unfortunately, my Swedish is not much better than my Japanese... But it is a good start and I am sure I will find some sort of English description somewhere. Here is a cut/paste of the thing run thru google

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Fletcher Kittredge wrote: Thanks for the pointers, Mikael. unfortunately, my Swedish is not much better than my Japanese... But it is a good start and I am sure I will find some sort of English description somewhere. Here is a cut/paste of the

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Another issue - how far does the technology support open access/infrastructure sharing/wholesaling? Not only are networks that get public funding likely to be expected to provide these, but there is evidence that they are important financially. Benoit Felten's presentation at eComm Europe

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Delian Delchev
Very much it depends on the case. In price perspective Active Ethernet is cheaper (for the active equipment) for both CAPEX and OPEX. Also it is reacher in features. Just for comparison 2.5Gbit G-PON solution cost about the same as reasonable 10Gig FTTH active ethernet solution. If you do

Edge-Core (Accton) switches

2009-12-02 Thread Todd Mueller
Anyone have any experience using Edge-Core switches (or Accton, Edge-Core is a subsidiary)? Good/bad? Pricing/features seem good, but you often get what you pay for . . . Thanks, Todd

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Delian Delchev
Generally Ethernet itself support in the last years natively Openaccess. But first you need to answer to youself what type of Openness you want? Open Access on Layer3 level? As it is made by the ADSL L3 LLU? If so, then both Active and passive FTTH Ethernet are absolutley ready for it. Every

Re: ATT SMTP Admin contact?

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Owen
On Dec 2, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: Because SenderID and SPF have no anti-spam value, and almost no anti-forgery value. Not that this stops a *lot* of people who've drunk the kool-aid from trying to use them anyway, OK, I'll bite--How exactly do you go about forging email from

RE: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Holmes,David A
Running fiber in the sewers can lead to many very expensive problems for homeowners. This is so because some municipalities consider the lateral sewer line running from the main sewer line in the street to the homeowners' house the responsibility of the homeowner. If the lateral should get blocked

Leaving public peering?

2009-12-02 Thread Lasher, Donn
This year I've been seeing what appears to be an increasing trend among service providers.. making the decision to leave public peering. I'm sure others on this list as seeing that trend as well. I have a couple of guesses, but I'm curious , and I wanted to get some other thoughts as to the why.

Re: Leaving public peering?

2009-12-02 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:46:46PM -0800, Lasher, Donn wrote: I realized that paid transit is down at almost obscene levels, but is that enough of a reason to increase hop-count, latencies, etc? Why disconnect from public mostly-free peering? Let's look at some

Re: Leaving public peering?

2009-12-02 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Lasher, Donn wrote: that enough of a reason to increase hop-count, latencies, etc? In what way is hop-count a valid measurement of network preformance/quality? Today with gigabit links serialisation-delay is a non-issue so hop-count is not important anymore.

Re: Leaving public peering?

2009-12-02 Thread Jonas Frey
Leo, the DE-CIX pricing is now 500 Euro/month...since 1st october...see end of that page. Both DE-CIX and AMS-IX have decreased their pricing this year..almost at the same time. I guess this is a move to stop company leaving public exchanges...i have seen this trend, too. Regards, Jonas On Wed,

Re: Leaving public peering?

2009-12-02 Thread Patrick W . Gilmore
On Dec 2, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Lasher, Donn wrote: This year I've been seeing what appears to be an increasing trend among service providers.. making the decision to leave public peering. I'm sure others on this list as seeing that trend as well. I have a couple of guesses, but I'm curious , and

Re: Leaving public peering?

2009-12-02 Thread Jack Bates
Leo Bicknell wrote: rate, and that helps offset some of the costs. I've oversimplified, and it's a very complex problem for most providers; however I know many are looking at the fees for peering ports go from being in the noise to a huge part of their cost structure and that doesn't work.

RE: Leaving public peering?

2009-12-02 Thread Shon Elliott
Just to chime in on this subject. We're at Equinix in San Jose. For access to the peering at their facility, they charge a $1000 MRC Fee, plus another $250 MRC for a cross-connect for GE port. I believe they also charge a $1000 NRC fee as well. Private peering would be an option if they didn't

Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Wade Peacock
We had a discussion today about IPv6 today. During our open thinking the topic of client equipment came up. We all commented that we have not seen any consumer grade IPv6 enable internet gateways (routers/firewalls), a kin to the ever popular Linksys 54G series, DLinks , SMCs or Netgears.

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Dave Temkin
Wade Peacock wrote: We had a discussion today about IPv6 today. During our open thinking the topic of client equipment came up. We all commented that we have not seen any consumer grade IPv6 enable internet gateways (routers/firewalls), a kin to the ever popular Linksys 54G series, DLinks ,

RE: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Paul Stewart
Biased opinion because we distribute/sell Tilgin related products, but they are supposed to do IPv6 Having said that, we have not lab tested them ourselves and plan to early next year Paul -Original Message- From: Wade Peacock [mailto:wade.peac...@sunwave.net] Sent:

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Wade Peacock
Matthew Dodd wrote: Apple has been shipping the Airport Extreme and Express (consumer router) with v6 support since 2007, if I recall correctly. They can also create a 4to6 tunnel automatically. By 4to6 to you mean IPv4 on the inside and IPv6 on the outside? Wade Peacock Sun Country

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Nathan Ward
On 3/12/2009, at 12:44 PM, Wade Peacock wrote: Matthew Dodd wrote: Apple has been shipping the Airport Extreme and Express (consumer router) with v6 support since 2007, if I recall correctly. They can also create a 4to6 tunnel automatically. By 4to6 to you mean IPv4 on the inside and IPv6

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Matthew Dodd
I meant to say 6to4, sorry about that. Nothing special there. -Matt On Dec 2, 2009, at 6:44 PM, Wade Peacock wade.peac...@sunwave.net wrote: Matthew Dodd wrote: Apple has been shipping the Airport Extreme and Express (consumer router) with v6 support since 2007, if I recall correctly.

Re: Leaving public peering?

2009-12-02 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 2, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Jonas Frey wrote: the DE-CIX pricing is now 500 Euro/month...since 1st october...see end of that page. Both DE-CIX and AMS-IX have decreased their pricing this year..almost at the same time. I guess this is a move to stop company leaving public exchanges...i have

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Matthew Dodd md...@doddserver.com wrote: I meant to say 6to4, sorry about that. Nothing special there. -Matt 4to6 would be a mighty nice feature on a CPE =) -- Brandon Galbraith Mobile: 630.400.6992 FNAL: 630.840.2141

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Durand, Alain
On 12/2/09 7:24 PM, Brandon Galbraith brandon.galbra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Matthew Dodd md...@doddserver.com wrote: I meant to say 6to4, sorry about that. Nothing special there. -Matt 4to6 would be a mighty nice feature on a CPE =) === If you are

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Fred Baker
There are specifications for them being developed in the IETF, BBF, and Cable Labs. Basically, all of the usual suspects are interested in having product that meets needs. On Dec 2, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Wade Peacock wrote: We had a discussion today about IPv6 today. During our open thinking

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Matthew Moyle-Croft
On 03/12/2009, at 11:24 AM, Fred Baker wrote: There are specifications for them being developed in the IETF, BBF, and Cable Labs. Basically, all of the usual suspects are interested in having product that meets needs. I challenge the usual suspects to deliver actual working dual stack IPv6

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Randy Bush
There are specifications for them being developed in the IETF, BBF, and Cable Labs. Basically, all of the usual suspects are interested in having product that meets needs. We had a discussion today about IPv6 today. During our open thinking the topic of client equipment came up. We

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Mehmet Akcin
Would you consider Juniper SSG5 as a Consumer Grade router? They do IPv6 and they are pretty good in general, and cheap as well. Mehmet On Dec 2, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Wade Peacock wrote: We had a discussion today about IPv6 today. During our open thinking the topic of client equipment came up.

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Steve Bertrand
Wade Peacock wrote: We had a discussion today about IPv6 today. During our open thinking the topic of client equipment came up. We all commented that we have not seen any consumer grade IPv6 enable internet gateways (routers/firewalls), a kin to the ever popular Linksys 54G series, DLinks ,

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Mark Newton
On 03/12/2009, at 12:45 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote: Come on CPE vendors - most of your run Linux in your CPEs these days. How hard is it to make it work? Someone got an image working for us with OpenWRT in his spare time in a week, surely you CPE vendors can cobble something together

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Mark Newton
On 03/12/2009, at 12:53 PM, Mehmet Akcin wrote: Would you consider Juniper SSG5 as a Consumer Grade router? Depends. Can I get one at Frys for $69.95 and set it up with a web browser? - mark -- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Bill Fehring
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 18:23, Mehmet Akcin meh...@akcin.net wrote: Would you consider Juniper SSG5 as a Consumer Grade router? No. Way too expensive and virtually 100% of consumers would not be able to install it on their own.

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Mark Newton
On 03/12/2009, at 9:51 AM, Dave Temkin wrote: You're correct, out of the box there aren't many. The first couple that come to mind are the Apple Airport Express and Airport Extreme, but I don't believe Linksys/Netgear/etc. have support out of the box. The Apple products do 6to4 out of the

Re: Leaving public peering?

2009-12-02 Thread Mehmet Akcin
On Dec 2, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Dec 2, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Jonas Frey wrote: the DE-CIX pricing is now 500 Euro/month...since 1st october...see end of that page. Both DE-CIX and AMS-IX have decreased their pricing this year..almost at the same time. I guess this is

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Jorge Amodio
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Mark Newton new...@internode.com.au wrote: On 03/12/2009, at 12:53 PM, Mehmet Akcin wrote: Would you consider Juniper SSG5 as a Consumer Grade router? Depends.  Can I get one at Frys for $69.95 and set it up with a web browser? That would be cool, a nice box

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Mehmet Akcin
On Dec 2, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Mark Newton new...@internode.com.au wrote: On 03/12/2009, at 12:53 PM, Mehmet Akcin wrote: Would you consider Juniper SSG5 as a Consumer Grade router? Depends. Can I get one at Frys for $69.95 and set it

RE: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Frank Bulk
I think they're (all) listed here: http://www.getipv6.info/index.php/Broadband_CPE Frank -Original Message- From: Wade Peacock [mailto:wade.peac...@sunwave.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 5:16 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls. We

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Seth Mattinen
Bill Fehring wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 18:23, Mehmet Akcin meh...@akcin.net wrote: Would you consider Juniper SSG5 as a Consumer Grade router? No. Way too expensive and virtually 100% of consumers would not be able to install it on their own. If they can't plug it in (that's a huge

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Matthew Moyle-Croft
I note that a lot of those have IPv6 support because of 3rd party DDWRT images :-) A lot of them support 6to4 only - and often quite poorly. MMC On 03/12/2009, at 1:27 PM, Frank Bulk wrote: I think they're (all) listed here: http://www.getipv6.info/index.php/Broadband_CPE Frank

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Gotstein
A Mikrotik Routerboard supports IPv6. Fairly cheap, under $100. But not easy enough for a novice home user to configure on their own. Could be a good cpe if it was pre-configured from the service provider though. I use a MT box at home which serves as my router, dual stack, and then set's

Re: ATT SMTP Admin contact?

2009-12-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:38:54 CST, Chris Owen said: On Dec 2, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: Because SenderID and SPF have no anti-spam value, and almost no anti-forgery value. Not that this stops a *lot* of people who've drunk the kool-aid from trying to use them anyway, OK,

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Mehmet Akcin meh...@akcin.net said: Noted on the christmas tree for santa ;) let's see if it will happen.. SSG5s are still on ScreenOS and going to be..., SRX series run JunOS but little too pricey for a home router :) I think the SRX100 is the intended replacement for the

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Owen DeLong
I believe that the Fritz box and the Apple Airport series gateways both qualify, although there is a price difference on the Apple gear. I am not sure about the price of the Fritz. Owen On Dec 2, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Wade Peacock wrote: We had a discussion today about IPv6 today. During our

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Owen DeLong
On Dec 2, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Mark Newton wrote: On 03/12/2009, at 9:51 AM, Dave Temkin wrote: You're correct, out of the box there aren't many. The first couple that come to mind are the Apple Airport Express and Airport Extreme, but I don't believe Linksys/Netgear/etc. have support out

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Stefan
Probably the same time they'll figure out the over-3-yrs-old IGMP ver3 support (for a *multimedia-oriented* company, multicast seem to still be foreign ... oh, well...) ***Stefan Mititelu http://twitter.com/netfortius http://www.linkedin.com/in/netfortius On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Owen

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Mark Newton
On 03/12/2009, at 3:26 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: You're correct, out of the box there aren't many. The first couple that come to mind are the Apple Airport Express and Airport Extreme, but I don't believe Linksys/Netgear/etc. have support out of the box. The Apple products do 6to4 out of

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Randy Bush
Pricing aside, do you feel the Japanese have a good architecture for the last mile? Would it adapt well from an environment that is mostly multi-dwelling units (MDU) to one which is mostly single-dwelling units? Any thoughts on good places to start for an english language speaker to learn

Re: ATT SMTP Admin contact?

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Owen
On Dec 2, 2009, at 9:52 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: It only stops forgery if the SPF record has a -all in it (as hubris.net does). However, a lot of domains (mine included) have a ~all instead. I guess I've never really seen the point of publishing a SPF record if it ends in ~all.

Re: ATT SMTP Admin contact?

2009-12-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Chris Owen ow...@hubris.net wrote: On Dec 2, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: Because SenderID and SPF have no anti-spam value, and almost no anti-forgery value.  Not that this stops a *lot* of people who've drunk the kool-aid from trying to use them

Re: ATT SMTP Admin contact?

2009-12-02 Thread John Levine
I guess I've never really seen the point of publishing a SPF record if it ends in ~all. What are people supposed to do with that info? Get your mail delivered to Hotmail, the last significant outpost of SPF/Sender-ID. Other than that, I agree it's useless. I also agree that any domain with

Re: ATT SMTP Admin contact?

2009-12-02 Thread Seth Mattinen
John Levine wrote: I guess I've never really seen the point of publishing a SPF record if it ends in ~all. What are people supposed to do with that info? Get your mail delivered to Hotmail, the last significant outpost of SPF/Sender-ID. Other than that, I agree it's useless. I also agree

Re: ATT SMTP Admin contact?

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Owen
On Dec 3, 2009, at 12:42 AM, John Levine wrote: I also agree that any domain with live users (as opposed to mail cannons sending ads or transaction confirmations) is likely to experience pain with -all from all the overenthusiastic little MTAs whose managers imagine that stopping forgery will