Hi All, Just a useful piece of info - I just spoke to my account manager at TalkTalk Business about what they plan to do for their EoFTTC product. I queried how they were going to present us the requisite RJ45 port as per their product description. They tell me they have successfully put the Comtrend VR-3030 through OR testing/approval. It’s cheap and cheerful but apparently supports all the things they need it to (such as QinQ).
http://us.comtrend.com/products/public/product/service-provider/vr-3030.html As they have been successfully passed for one CP, I imagine getting them passed for others would be straightforward. Alternatively, as TalkTalk have full national coverage (they have committed to being on-net everywhere Openreach rollout by no later than 8 weeks), a solution for this would be to just put your FTTC business through TT and just use this device (seeing as it’s been approved for use on TT lines). Incidentally, TT are doing great deals at the moment trying to push more DSL/FTTC business. As you may be aware, they offer an L2TP variant of their FTTC product which they don’t charge backhaul bandwidth on. It’s not a million miles from BTW tail prices, but without the exorbitant backhaul costs. Should be available on SMPF soon. C Charlie Boisseau Fluency Communications (Commsworld Ltd T/A) T: +44 (0) 330 121 1000 Twitter: @charlieboisseau www.fluency.net.uk [email protected]
