Re: Verizon Partner Summit

On 5/14/12 6:59 PM, Matthew S. Crocker wrote:
>
> I got the invite a couple months ago. I wonder if they are going to
> roll a coffin through to represent DSL.

I'll let you know. I take it you won't be in attendance? I have the
feeling they are going to be pushing their newish wholesale cloud
offering. It will be interesting to see what the focus of the Summit
will be. I know our account manager has been pushing us to sell their
VzON fiber product, which we have had some success with.

> On another note, what is everyone using to terminate their DSL subs?
> I have a Redback SE-400 handling my PPPoE, it doesn't support IPv6
> and they are trying to get me to upgrade to an SE-600. I just can't
> stomach investing any more money into DSL technology. Comcast&
> Charter are eating our lunch with speed& price. I'm down to 800
> PPPoE sessions and it is shrinking every month :(

We're still using a Cisco 7206 to terminate VZ DSL PPPoE sessions. Our
CLEC DSLAMs are Zhone MALC and MXKs, which do their own routing and
subscriber management. We're adding an Adtran TA5000 to our network,
and we need to figure out how we're going to terminate the subscribers
hanging off of it. We don't use PPPoE on the CLEC side, and I'd rather
not start using it with the TA5000. I'm thinking we will try to use a
7206 to terminate the VLANs coming from the TA5000... I know Cisco's
ASR1000 product line is the evolution path from the 7206 for subscriber
management.

We too are seeing Verizon DSL losses, but we're holding our own with our
CLEC DSL and voice bundles. What kind of services are folks seeing
growth in?

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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michael Bathrick"<bathrick@berkshire.net> To:
>> verizonisp@westnet.com Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 6:49:19 PM
>> Subject: Re: Verizon Partner Summit
>>
>> I haven't heard from my account rep in years.  Thought they did
>> away with them.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On 5/14/2012 5:49 PM, Kevin Brown wrote:
>>> On 5/14/12 3:17 PM, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 14 May 2012, Kevin W. Brown wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> By any chance is anyone else here going to the Verizon
>>>>> Wholesale Partner Summit June 6-7 in Miami?
>>>>
>>>> This is the first I'm hearing of it.
>>>
>>> Are you in regular contact with your account rep?  We received
>>> the invitation from our rep, and in talking to him, it seems
>>> that Verizon was really trying to make a push to get as much
>>> attendance as possible.
>>>
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