RG to BRAS Communications

How PPPoE Connects the HAN to the

WAN through the MAN
 Typical DSL-PTM Network Terminations
Customer Premises Telco or PTT ISP, Corporate Network

PTM Switching PTM Routing

Fiber Fiber Internet

Backbone Backbone

DSL local loop

DSLAM: PTM Backbone: Internet:

Remote Access
DSL termination, Metro Fiber Transport, Services,
Server: routing,
PTM concentration Layer 2 aggregation Servers
VLANs, security

DSL Line Encoding

PTM Signaling and LMI

Data Encapsulation, Traffic Shaping, Security

Flow Control, Application Software, Content

FIGURE 1
 PPPoE and VLAN Constructs
Video and Data travel within separate VLAN Pipes over the same
Copper/Fiber Transport Path from Customer to Service Provider

Copper/Fiber
Transport
[PTM VCC (0,36)]

VLAN 60: Video Boot/Keep-Alive Sessions

VLAN 1000: Video Multicast/VOD Streams

VLAN 115: PPPoE Data with 2 PPP Sessions

FIGURE 2
 PPPoE Layering, Packetization and Connectivity
Laptop
Running End-to-End Layering (Example using PTM/Metro Ethernet)
PPPoE
Metro
Metro Area
Network
Area Internet
Internet
Home Network (MAN)
(MAN)
Home Area
Area (WAN)
(WAN)
Network
Network (HAN)
(HAN)

MAC/VLAN MAC/VLAN MAC/VLAN

DSL/PTM PHY DSL/PTM PHY DSL/PTM PHY

Data Packet Construction Data Packet DSL/PTM BRAS/PTM

Layering/RG Network Termination
Termination

FIGURE 3