[uknof] Alcatel UK Service Provider Resellers

2011-08-02 Thread Alistair C
If anyone has dealings with Alcatel UK resellers (Magdalene or Indigo) I would be interested to hear about your experiences (off-list) Many thanks.

Re: [uknof] Ethernet over FTTC (GEA-FTTC)

2015-01-11 Thread Alistair C
On 11 January 2015 at 03:55, Wojciech Lesiak wrote: > Does anyone have any detailed information about this product? Is it similar > to leased line, is it possible to run BGP session over it ? You can run multiple VLANS (q-in-q) and BGP sessions of this product if you so wish. One thing to be awar

Re: [uknof] CE-PE IGP

2015-06-18 Thread Alistair C
On 18 June 2015 at 02:01, Neil J. McRae wrote: > Depends on your segment. > > In the larger enterprises many of them run EIGRP and need you to run it, > this is (was) a pain as if your edge device wasn't Cisco you ended up > having to put a layer of Cisco 26/36 devices to do redistribution. I've

Re: [uknof] CE-PE IGP

2015-06-18 Thread Alistair C
On 18 June 2015 at 10:06, David Freedman wrote: > > So I take it you've never come across (or never sold to) a customer > who needs OSPF interaction with your network between sites (I.e, they want > you to do layer 3 services, *and* participate in / bridge their backbone > area, because they

Re: [uknof] Openreach withdrawal of FTTC CPEs

2015-09-13 Thread Alistair C
On 10 September 2015 at 17:39, Paul Astle 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 co

Re: [uknof] Openreach withdrawal of FTTC CPEs

2015-09-14 Thread Alistair C
On 14 September 2015 at 09:00, James Bensley wrote: > > I agree with all that you said except this bit. With the GEA NGA > service from option reache Option 82 is being passed (we're using > it!), they just intercept it an insert the link speed as extra values. > Do you currently have any custom

Re: [uknof] Openreach withdrawal of FTTC CPEs

2015-09-14 Thread Alistair C
On 14 September 2015 at 12:43, James Bensley wrote: > On 14 September 2015 at 12:08, Alistair C wrote: > > > Do you currently have any customers utilising centralised DHCP and relay > for > > their LAN side, on FTTC? > > > Yes. > Interesting, are you using DHCP

[uknof] FTTC Wires only

2016-01-13 Thread Alistair C
Hello, BT stocks of FTTC VDSL2 modems are already scarce in some BT Openreach engineering circles and we have had recent installs where the engineers have not supplied a modem, despite their contract to supply with new installs until 'March' and then support till 2017. Please excuse the below as

Re: [uknof] FTTC Wires only

2016-01-13 Thread Alistair C
On 13 January 2016 at 13:30, Paul Mansfield wrote: > On 13 January 2016 at 10:43, Alistair C wrote: > > I am also investigating obtaining a supply of > > VDSL2 modems but this is also proving challenging with ECI quoting a high > > minimum order quantity > > how

Re: [uknof] FTTC Wires only

2016-01-14 Thread Alistair C
On 14 January 2016 at 13:51, Alistair C wrote: > On 14 January 2016 at 09:41, Darren Brown wrote: >> >> Has anybody had a quote for 2500 of the ECI units ? I think the biggest >> issue we face here is whatever we use needs to be an approved device by >> Openreach

Re: [uknof] FTTC Wires only

2016-01-14 Thread Alistair C
On 14 January 2016 at 09:41, Darren Brown wrote: > > Has anybody had a quote for 2500 of the ECI units ? I think the biggest > issue we face here is whatever we use needs to be an approved device by > Openreach, the process for getting a router approved takes months and > months, we certainly wont

Re: [uknof] FTTC Wires only

2016-02-03 Thread Alistair C
On 3 February 2016 at 11:43, James Bensley wrote: > To take this thread full circle... > > On 13 January 2016 at 10:43, Alistair C wrote: > > This appears to have thrown up an interesting problem in so far that > turning > > to integrated devices such as the Cisco 887