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Ignitionnet · 08-12-2010, 16:49

It's pretty simple actually, in order to preserve quality of service it would be necessary to have 20Mbps business customers able to be load balanced across two different chassis on the VM network, the legacy DOCSIS 1.1 chassis and the newer next-gen CMTS which serves DOCSIS 3 customers. When a customer goes from one chassis to the other they cannot keep the same IP address at this time.

The solution to this, coming soon, is to use a router which will open a tunnel to a centralised location within the VM network in a similar manner to how ADSL customers are tunnelled via lower level protocols to a BRAS where they obtain their IP level connectivity.

For those who have been within VM back in ntl times remember how the AOL wholesale service worked? Customers logged on with their AOL client and were tunnelled to AOL with the CMTS acting as a LAC.

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Ignitionnet Inactive Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire Age: 47 Posts: 13,995	Re: VM 20mb Business - No Static Address It's pretty simple actually, in order to preserve quality of service it would be necessary to have 20Mbps business customers able to be load balanced across two different chassis on the VM network, the legacy DOCSIS 1.1 chassis and the newer next-gen CMTS which serves DOCSIS 3 customers. When a customer goes from one chassis to the other they cannot keep the same IP address at this time. The solution to this, coming soon, is to use a router which will open a tunnel to a centralised location within the VM network in a similar manner to how ADSL customers are tunnelled via lower level protocols to a BRAS where they obtain their IP level connectivity. For those who have been within VM back in ntl times remember how the AOL wholesale service worked? Customers logged on with their AOL client and were tunnelled to AOL with the CMTS acting as a LAC.