Abstract: | Modem Wholesaling in Today\'s Marketplace: Vendor Approaches and Solutions (Marie Hattar, Nortel)
Modem wholesaling to ISPs and VPDNs is a growing market segment and presents its challenges in segmenting the service and yet managing the routing and IP address aggregation. This BOF provides a forum for discussing various approaches to this challenge. A solution is presented for providing the underlying infrastructure and architecture needed to build a wholesale network that is scalable and extensible as modem wholesaling service grows. Discussion topics include:
Architectures
POP versus Super POP
NAS Densities
Scalability & Extensibility
Segmenting ISPs and VPDNs
IP Pool Management
NATs vs. Radius vs. IP Pools on the box
IP Aggregation
Services Infrastructure
Port outsourcing; Usage Based; Users logged
Services Offered for modem wholesaling
Port Bursting or overflow capability
Managing Port Guarantees
Domain filtering
Billing
AAA - what type of requirements; proxy cababilities
Demonstrating SLA\'s
CNM
Establishing comfort level with ISP or VPDN
Demonstrating utilization and trends
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