[nsp] DSL Architecture Question

[james at thehamptonfamily.us]

> On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 james at thehamptonfamily.us wrote:
>
>> We are going to be deploying Cisco 6160 DSLAMs in C.O.'s that are
>> located
>
> May I ask what your motivation in using a ATM dslam is? We have deployed

The Company bought these DSLAMS against my advice, they got a great deal
and at the time couldnt afford much else, if the roll out is a success
they will likely upgrade.

James

>  dslams where we terminate the ATM in the dslam and the dslam has an
> ethernet uplink (basically the dslam gives us one customer per vlan) and
>  we then terminate this in some kind of ethernet device which might have
>  any kind of uplink (RBE like functionality but on vlan).
>
> We looked at ATM only dslams and just couldnt figure out what advantage
> it  would give us.
>
> --
> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se