That worked, thank you very much. Short note for subsequent users, you have to set the IPv4/IPv6 mode to IPv4 only in the WAN interface.

So far my experience with the Zyxel is much better than the Huawei.

I’ve been grappling with the issue for a few months now and have now used both the Huawei huawei echolife hn8255ws and the zyxel ax7501-b0 for testing purposes. The two devices also work on a private line.

Unfortunately, both devices only have 10G-base-t and no SFP ports in the LAN, but that’s not a big deal. With both you can achieve higher speeds than with the IB3, although the Huawei is faster at first glance. There is more about the two devices in this thread: /t5/Router-Hardware/KMU-10Gbit-IB3-Centro-Business-2/td-p/623622

I achieve between 4-7gbit on both devices.

I’ve been using the EchoLife on a private line for a few days without any problems and am currently testing the Zyxel. Both work without any problems and the speed is relatively good (not anywhere near 10gbit, more like 4-7gbit, but that’s hard to expect with a shared line).

However, I couldn’t get IPv6 to work on either device, although it worked without any problems on the IB3 and the alternative router is actually supported by both. I haven’t invested much time here yet, but if anyone knows what this could be, I would be happy 🙂

Setup was definitely more complicated with the Huawei, but it was limited.

I am aware that the IB3 can theoretically output 2.5gbit + 4×1gbit + wifi, however that is a limitation with the IB3, not with Swisscoms fiber line. Swisscom sells a 10gbit symmetric fiber line and then sells you a bottleneck on top of that.

I am aware that the IB3 wasn’t released years back, however this is the very first time I’ve heard any claim that the next version (which doesn’t even have a release estimate) will support anywhere near 10gbit. There’s a thread in the german forum hinting at a possible 5gbit router, and Swisscoms tech support is naturally tight lipped about the topic, which is entirely understandable.

This isn’t about being patient and waiting for a new box. I’m a CS student who’s interested in the topic and am eager to learn more. This is a summer project for me.

Regarding the router, I am currently running an old Google Search Appliance server with two 8-core Intel E5s. Performance is not the issue. The connection from the server to the switch internally is 40gbit qsfp+ and the swisscom module would be connected to a mikrotik crs326 (which recognises the module) in bridge since the sfp+ intel nic in the server does not recognise the module.

My question pertains less to the hardware needed to router 10gbit or the current feature set of the IB3, nor a better replacement, it much more pertains to the effective connection from the fiber module via the sfp+ port to the dhcp/vlan settings the router needs in order to function properly.

Hello everyone,

I’m currently in the process of upgrading XGS-PON as a private customer to the actual 10gbit (or at least trying to).

I have already created a post about this in the English forum: [/t5/Internet-General/XGS-PON-with-custom-ONT/td-p/631780](https://community.swisscom.ch/t5/Internet- General/XGS-PON-with-custom-ONT/td-p/631780)

However, I was referred here.

To summarize the post, I’m currently using a Mikrotik CRS326 as a switch for my internal network and have a virtualized router (VyOS) running libvirt on a server running Centos. Since the Intel sfp+ network card in the server does not correctly recognize the Hisense module from Swisscom, I have so far tried to attach the module directly to the switch and connect it from the switch to the server via a bridge and a DAC.

So far I have used a DHCP Vendor Client ID with a value of 100008.0001 and a VLAN tag 10 as settings, but I can’t get an IP that way. Unfortunately, I only have limited knowledge of XGS-PON. As far as I understand it, the Hisense module should already act as an ONU, so I wouldn’t need another device.

I’m a little hesitant about the HN8255Ws because I don’t really see the added value. Does “Swisscom Certified” simply mean that the device accepts the sfp+ module from Swisscom?

Greetings Carlo

Greetings

I’m looking into Swisscoms XGS-PON connection and I’m looking at the possibility to bypass the Internet-Box 3 completely.

The reasoning behind this for me is that the Internet-Box has an output of 2.5gbit (measured at roughly 3gbit) max on the fastest local port. Swisscom advertises 10gbit and the only bottleneck between Swisscom and my home network is the Internet-Box (most to all other devices are 10gbit capable and I run OM3 internally).

According to the website:

Only routers and modules certified by Swisscom can be connected to the new 10 Gbit/s technology (XGS-PON). At the present time, Internet-Box 3 is the only router compatible with the supplied module.

However, from my understanding XGS-PON is essentially just a faster version of the GPON standard (essentially just dhcp+vlan), and with a XGS-PON (and sfp+) compatible ONT, the system could still work.

Swisscom ships XGS-PON with a Hisense LTF7225 SFP+ transceiver for the Internet Box 3. The module acts as an ONU from what I can tell, however simply connecting it to a compatible router did not work in a simple configuration (a Mikrotik CRS326 recognises the module, as opposed to say an Intel NIC, however bridging it to a router does not seem to work and I cannot get an IP address. The settings I’ve tried were the dhcp vendor client id 100008,0001 and vlan 10 settings specified by Swisscom for the fiber lines on this page: https://www.swisscom.ch/en/residential/help/device/internet-router/external-router.html ).

Has anyone else approached this topic or even gotten it to work? I would be appreciative of any Swisscom techs that could give their two cents regarding this as well.

Cheers

Carlo