RE: (ASCEND) 7.10.6 software for the DSL MAX 20

[Matt Holdrege <matt@ascend.com>]

Why would that happen?


At 02:38 PM 12/28/99 -0800, bcurnow wrote:

>The thing I'm concerned about is that doing permconn reloads (to update or
>add new users) force all the existing connections to drop..  Not a huge
>problem on plain bridge connections, but I thnk PPPoE customers would
>notice and wonder what was going on.
>
>----------------- Brian  Curnow ----------------
>
>On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Randy E. Reinhardt wrote:
>
> > Actually everyone, ignore Ascends claim of a thousand PVC's on a DSL
> > Terminator....It's 64 - that's right, 64 PVC's using the built-in profiles.
> > If you are silly enough to want to do more then that, IE going to RADIUS,
> > there is NO WAY to control the traffic shaping/speeds of any of the RADIUS
> > permconn profiles. (yes, we use that CPE bridged to DSLAM and even bridged
> > through the Terminator scenario)
> >
> > We have a DS3 circuit (That should support 1000 PVC's yes?) from the Telco
> > DSLAM and in the Terminators DS3 config you can specify traffic shapers 
> that
> > throttle back the speeds, then in the connection profiles, again in the
> > Terminator you can specify which traffic shaper to use.  Good so far...till
> > you try RADIUS.  No way to specify that traffic shaper so guess what?  Each
> > customer gets a wide open (up to 45Mbps) connection.  All using Traffic
> > Shaper Profile 16 which is the default and guess what again?  You cannot
> > change the default Traffic Shaper Profile.
> >
> > So we are being forced to *give* free upgrades from 384/128Kbps (which is
> > what most of our clients are paying for) to instead the 1.5Mbps speeds that
> > NV Bell supports on most of the lines.  Nice eh?  Due to Ascend/Lucent 
> if we
> > want more then 64 DSL customers they all get to surf at T1 speeds for the
> > price of 384Kbps.
> >
> > And if I sound a little bitter it is because for 11 days now Ascend/Lucent
> > has been promising to get us beta code that had this support...then when I
> > complained yesterday that we *needed* this support, *now*...oops, it's not
> > going to be supported in the new code...we'll have TAC look at it.
> > Meanwhile we are being forced to give bandwidth away...or turn customers
> > away.  Not a fun choice.
> >
> >
> > Randy E. Reinhardt
> > randy@pyramid.net <mailto:randy@pyramid.net>
> > System Administrator
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ascend-users@max.bungi.com
> > [mailto:owner-ascend-users@max.bungi.com]On Behalf Of Matt Holdrege
> > Sent: Monday, December 27, 1999 12:00 PM
> > To: Tony Ray
> > Cc: ascend-users@bungi.com
> > Subject: Re: (ASCEND) 7.10.6 software for the DSL MAX 20
> >
> >
> > The Terminator does support the feature called Bridged IP Routing (BIR),
> > which almost identical to Cisco's IRB. This feature was implemented
> > specifically for that reason, where CPE equipment is a plain vanilla Bridge
> > and the PC's traffic is bridged (CPE) and then switched (DSLAM) and finally
> > bridging encapsulation is terminated on the Terminator and then routed.
> >
> > Multiple customer premises share the same subnet and the Terminator has
> > one of its interfaces on that subnet.
> >
> > Bridge groups is another feature that allows customer to create
> > "poor man's" VLANs by combining multiple bridged interfaces in
> > unique bridge group.
> >
> >  > >Also, while the Terminator 100 appears to be able to handle 1000 
> dlci's,
> >  > >there is no mention of whether there are limits on the number of dlci's
> >  > >per T-1 interface.
> >
> > Even if you consider SERIOUS oversubsription, I am not sure how practical
> > is 1000 pvcs on 1 T1 line.
> >
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