FidoNet, A&A and I believe Fluidata all offer an M2M service …. and I believe we all get it from AQL
Jon On 16 Jan 2013, at 16:36, Ronan Mullally <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Ben Ward wrote: > >> Regarding M2M, I see AQL & A&A can offer an LNS termination for mobile >> data, but I see no mention of PPPoX - is something else used? > > I think it depends on the mobile operator. I spent a lot of time a couple > of years ago working with wholesale DSL and 3G data in Ireland. We got > DSL tails via L2TP from Eircom (the incumbent), another telco fed us raw > PPPoE. > > O2 were able to deliver 3G data via PPPoL2TP over an IPSEC tunnel across > the Internet [1]. They wanted silly money to do the same thing across a > few dozen metres of fibre cross-connect. When I went to look at doing the > same thing in the UK things started getting messy fast. I think AQL may > have offered an L2TP solution, but by the time I found that I was far too > concussed from trying to get various mobile operators to (a) talk to me > and (b) think beyond sticking a managed router on my network and charging > me an arm and a leg for it. > > > -Ronan > > [1] Bastardised as only mobile operators can do - there was a PPP proxy > sitting somewhere in the middle which didn't do things like IPv6. > > >> On 15 January 2013 18:09, Ben Ward <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Looking forward to seeing people on Thursday at the meeting. >>> >>> I've been doing some research on the benefits of an LNS and would >>> appreciate some advice if anyone has 20 minutes to spare on Thursday. I see >>> there was the AQL workshop back in 2011, so hopefully people can remember >>> that far back. Mostly I'm looking at aggregating DSL/FTTP/FTTC type end >>> users, some for Internet access, some into private networks, and >>> considering also connecting M2M devices. >>> >>> See you there >>> >>> Ben >>> >>> -- >>> [email protected] | http://www.crouchingbadger.com >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> [email protected] | http://www.crouchingbadger.com >> >
