SDSL is not a true standard. It's a "industry standard". If the ISP uses
CooperMountain at the DSLAM (CO), then you have to use CopperEdge
certified products. xDSL is a mess right now because of the number of
current and upcoming "standards".
Cisco is a little behind as far as DSL. I was AMAZED to hear the Product
Manager for Cisco DSL saying at the DSLCON 2000 conference in March to
"Watch ATM 25 for home networking on DSL". I even asked him to repeat
what he was saying. Yeah right, with the flood of 10/100 products for
home, we'll start using ATM 25! I still have not recovered!
To me, that said it all. Maybe something has changed in 5 months but you
can't assume that that Cisco is the leader in all technologies.
Netopia probably has a lot more CPE equipment sold than Cisco. 3Com is
also a large SDSL vendor compatible with coppermountain. Check the
CopperMountain.com site.
On a related note:
I'm having trouble finding a good standard-based (G.Lite, ADSL DMT) DSLAM
that has a 10/100 interface on it (as WAN link). I think that
CopperMountain has the lead in this area.
If anyone has information in this area, I would greatly appreciate it.
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Jonn Martell - Network Engineering-ITServices UBC/BCNet http://www.ubc.ca
Instructor - Internet Technology http://www.cstudies.ubc.ca/internet/
mail: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, V6T 1Z2
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Chris Larson wrote:
> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 09:14:35 -0400
> From: Chris Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 'Ole Drews Jensen' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: SDSL statement : True or False ?
>
> It is surprising since Netopia and Cisco equipment work very well together
> (in my opinion). You can request from them a regular DSL modem and plug the
> Cisco into that letting them handle everything up to and including the
> modem.
>
> Also,
> I am not saying Cisco is god and everyone should use them, but I would be a
> little concerned that a vendor is shutting out a supplier of network
> products that has an 80% or better market share, even if they were a little
> slow in bringing DSL products to market.
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ole Drews Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 5:29 PM
> To: ''
> 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:
>
> =/=
> 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.
> =/=
>
> Can that be true, or are they just trying to force me into Netopia
> equipment?
>
> Any comments to this is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ole
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Ole Drews Jensen
> Systems Network Manager
> CCNA, MCSE, MCP+I
> RWR Enterprises, Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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