On 10 September 2015 at 17:39, Paul Astle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Openreach have an excellent pedigree in offering tiered SLAs and the > removal > of the CPE leads me to question whether Openreach continue to view FTTC as > a > business grade option with future enhancements in this area - putting this > into context would Openreach ever entertain removing the NID for an EAD > service and consider this as a workable solution? I don't *think* BT view FTTC as a business grade option, in the same way they didn't and don't view DSL as a business grade option. The available SLA's provide a clear picture on this, in my opinion. The historical picture for rollout *seems* (conjecture) to be, in my experience, one of targeting residential but avoiding cabinets that have business parks / premises, presumably avoid eroding the EAD / other services, which are likely to be more profitable. That and the fact they effectively block DHCP option 82, utilising it for sync data as per the SIN, thus needing a workaround for those customers who require it. I'd argue this is a fairly typical requirement for a business network. All said and done, happy to be able to use FTTC to our advantage. We see far fewer faults than with our EFM services, as you'd expect, yes I think it will be a step back to lose the option for supplied modems, from a fault resolution perspective only. -- Alistair Cockeram
