Well the CES is EOLed. ACX5048 can be had for around $10k, so not cheap for residential customers but fine for upstream aggregation.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 2:00 AM Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.mu> wrote: > > > On 14/Feb/19 23:25, Brandon Martin wrote: > > > > > > > The CES is...wonky. My Foundry/Brocade/Extreme SEs have steered me > > away from them on more than one occasion. > > > > The CER is fine but of course more expensive. It'll take a full > > Internet table, though, which is handy. > > > > For AE resi deployments, I'd aggregate folks onto cheap 48 port > > switches then terminate onto a single pizza box router somewhere "less > > deep" in the network. Distributed, in-field L3 termination doesn't > > mean you have to terminate L3 right at the customer-facing port. > > One of the reasons I'd pay a little extra for an Active-E FTTH-centric > switch is to control bandwidth right at the port the customer connects > to. Cheap Ethernet switches generally don't have this capability (or if > they do, have it in only one direction). This is why I felt the CES/CER > were reasonable, but purely as Layer 2 termination and not using their > IP/MPLS capabilities. > > Anyway, it's been a while since I had any interest in this, so it's > possible life has changed since I was at the beach :-). > > Mark. > >