From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jun 6 09:05:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA17541 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 09:05:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pinky.junction.net (pinky.junction.net [199.166.227.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA17533 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 09:05:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@memra.com) Received: from sidhe.memra.com (sidhe.memra.com [199.166.227.105]) by pinky.junction.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA02526; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 09:05:06 -0700 Received: from localhost (michael@localhost) by sidhe.memra.com (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) with SMTP id JAA22665; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 09:05:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 09:05:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Dillon To: inet-access@earth.com cc: linuxisp@friendly.jeffnet.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, iap@vma.cc.nd.edu Subject: Re: US West and RADSL (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199806061457.IAA24795@bvhd.bmt.net> Message-ID: Organization: Memra Communications Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Dan D. Compton wrote: > > >We are a DSL enabled ISP. Our first DSL customer ordered his DSL line > and > > What are the requirements to be a "DSL enabled ISP"? You have to ask your ILEC or CLEC about that. Most phone companies that allow ISPs to use DSL do it by selling the ISP some sort of big pipe (SMDS, ATM, or maybe even a T1) and then routing customer packets from the DSL connection to the ISP. The architecture looks a bit like this: LEC building ---------------------- | | ---------- DSL | ------- -------- | ------- |customer|-----------|--|DSLAM|--|router|-------| ISP |--------Internet ---------- | ------- ---|---- | ------- | | | ---------------|------ | Internet If a DSL customer uses the telco as their ISP then the telco routes their packets through their own Internet connection. But if the customer chooses an alternate "DSL-enabled" ISP then the telco routes the packets through a local connection to that ISP. This local connection is what makes the ISP DSL-enabled. Note that this is different from what most ISPs want. Most ISPs want to install their own DSLAM in the telco building and hook the customer's copper directly to that. Or alternatively they want to be in a building next door with reasonable low rates for access to the copper something like zero-mile circuits that are found in colo facilities. -- Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Communications Inc. - E-mail: michael@memra.com http://www.memra.com - *check out the new name & new website* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message