In my experience with two different DSL providers ( Northpoint and Covad, if
you must know ) On the provider side they test for compatibility, ease of
use, setup etc. they want their installers to be able to walk into your
home, pop in the equipment, spend five minutes setting it up and testing,
and then be on their way. Oh yeah, they want to make a buck on this stuff
without having their customers balk at high cost of equipment. Their QA
people have looked at the market, done their testing, negotiated their
pricing, and they are done with it.
You can put in your own stuff and chances are it will work. But if there are
any problems, you know what happens.
It is best go with what the carrier says. If you have other issues, such as
firewall or NAT, you can always install another device into the mix.
ISP-----DSLRouter-----CiscoRouter------insideNetwork
And use the IOS firewall feature set. Or some other combination.
Chuck
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ole
Drews Jensen
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 2:29 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: SDSL statement : True or False ?
I would like to convert our branch offices from ISDN connections to SDSL,
but the carrier that I would like to use want's me to use Netopia routers
instead of Cisco. When I told them that I would like to use Cisco to
standalize our equipment and since I know how to operate Cisco routers, I
got this message:
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We checked with our dsl partner and unfortunately their Copper Mountain
DSLAMS do not work with Cisco routers for dsl service. We have plenty of
customers with Cisco routers for their frame, Internet, etc. along with
Netopia routers for DSL and we've had no problems. But if you
want to look at a metro frame relay solution, we can work up something
there. Let me know.
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Can that be true, or are they just trying to force me into Netopia
equipment?
Any comments to this is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ole
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Systems Network Manager
CCNA, MCSE, MCP+I
RWR Enterprises, Inc.
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