On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:40:11 +0100
Gustavo Homem <[email protected]> wrote:
> For our business case we found out that a certified (ie well tested...) ADSL
> external bridge would be the right trade off between stability and complexity
> and would suit better the operations for multiple remote customers using
> different technologies that can also operate on bridged mode (adsl, cable,
> dedicated circuits and the new GPON fiber services).
>
> Given so many different technologies we certanly don't want to look for an
> internal card for each one. This way we reuse the same soekris configuration
> which reduces diversity.
>
> Supporting a single technology over a *very large* number of sites, or having
> plain fun with hardware hacking :-) would take us your route, I guess.
Oh.. very different use case. I made a one-of-a-kind system that had
to have very high stability with very high customization. In this case,
the PCI card approach is (in my experience) better as it leads to higher
control over the system.
In your case, where you have large deployments, with different parameters
that would dictate different hardware (PCI cards), this isn't something
you (or anyone else for that matter) would want to go. I can understand
why you chose the external bridge and certainly would go the same way
if i'd be in the same situation.
Attila Kinali
--
Why does it take years to find the answers to
the questions one should have asked long ago?
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