Re: netconf and working "on the box"

[Simon Leinen <simon@limmat.switch.ch>]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:51:30 -0500, RJ Atkinson <rja@extremenetworks.com> said:
> On Thursday, Mar 13, 2003, at 20:32 America/Montreal, Faye Ly wrote:
>> [...]  a green field deployment scenario will purposely design a
>> 'single point of failure' management network.  This is more of
>> retro fit into a legacy network, let's say DSL or APON.  Either
>> case doesn't really have any OOB management except driving all the
>> way to the curb and plug the laptop into the console port.
[...]
> Unclear to me what APON means in this context.  Sounds like a
> telephony term.

ATM-based PON (Passive Optical Network)? They seem to have gone
straight from pilot to legacy then, which may not be too surprising.

> Telephony networks are NOT the IETF's focus -- IP networks are.

Agree.
-- 
Simon.

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