Re: Is hotspot going to replace PPPoE

John has opened another can of worms - flat-rate pricing. I believe that carriers will have to consider offering plans based upon traffic volume usage in order to reduce costs and keep prices reasonable for the 'normal' user. I have learned from three separate sources that on the order of 5% of subscribers typically consume half the bandwidth of a flat-rate network. PPPoE does allow carriers the capability to easily deal with metering or capping for individual subscribers, as well as identify DSLAMs which may be developing bottlenecks. But any mechanism that generates RADIUS records will satisfy those criteria. Our network utilizes the wholesale model for multiple ISP's and other services, and PPPoE makes it very manageable for us and the subscriber. We also have some subscribers who do not use PPPoE, and they require a user record in the telco's Access Concentrator in addition to the ISP's RADIUS server, as well as a special ATM cross-connect, which is a PITA. Although they do have a straight ethernet connection this way, they have no way to connect to other networks like their company LAN or a game server without setting up a VPN through their ISP, which will entail more latency and perhaps metering charges.

JC

>On Tuesday 21 January 2003 04:40, John Angelmo wrote:
> PPPoE is a big problem and not a solution, there are major disadvantages

> Bob Carrick wrote:
Received on Tue Jan 21 13:22:34 2003