Best VSDL modem-router to target?

[Philip Prindeville]

> On Jan 9, 2022, at 5:46 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2022-01-10 at 10:41 +1100, Mathew McBride wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022, at 10:14 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2022-01-05 at 18:05 -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>>> Have you looked at the Traverse Geos2?
>>> 
>>> That's kind of dated now (ADSL2+ only).... but Traverse seem to
>>> have a
>>> new toy now:
>>> 
>>> https://traverse.com.au/products/ten64-networking-platform/
>>> And it has an external VDSL board: 
>>> https://traverse.com.au/hardware-4.html
>>> 
>>> Looks like the VDSL is a standalone device much like the Solos card
>>> which they integrated into the Geos.
>> 
>> Indeed, the Geos has been out of production for several years now.
>> 
>> We don't have a dual DSL product anymore as most of the use cases for
>> dual-DSL have shifted to DSL+5G or even dual-5G instead.
>> 
>> Our VDSL card is just a Lantiq/MaxLinear GRX gateway with an Ethernet
>> uplink to host. 
> 
> Is that a GRX300, with VRX318?
> 
> Wonder what it would take to get OpenWrt running directly on it :)
> 
>> It's not possible to construct a something that functions like the
>> Solos/Geos with modern DSL chipsets.
> 
> Is it not possible to have a VRX518 transceiver alone on a PCIe card?
> Is it that you can't *get* them as discrete PCIe devices, or that they
> wouldn't work like that?
> 
>> (Except maybe if you can get the VRX PCIe phys working on plain
>> OpenWrt. I believe others have tried and not succeeded yet)
> 
> We do have native VRX200 support, and there's progress on VRX518 too,
> which looks like it's working for many users although it isn't merged
> yet.
> 
> While we dream about that, though, having the VDSL bridged to Ethernet
> by an internal "black box" PCIe device instead of having to use an
> external modem is still a big win.
> 
> Are your VDSL cards available for purchase? I'm tempted to go buy a
> Ten64 right now and see if I can help with upstreaming the OpenWrt
> support, if I can get a VDSL card too. 


What was the conclusion about VDSL2 PCIe cards?  I'm looking for a VDSL/2 card that does bonding/vectoring for use with CenturyLink DSLAM's...

Looking for something to work with regular size PCIe, not mini-PCIe.

Thanks,

-Philip