FTTP vs leased lines. Which is better and which is worse? Will FTTP really replace fibre leased lines? Let's explore! Fibre to the Premises Fibre to the Premises or FTTP has been around for some time. It's an access technology used all over the world, based on the ITU-T (International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector) G.984 (and it's amendments) standard, more commonly referred to as a technology as 'GPON' (Gigabit Passive Optical Network). FTTP marks the next step in network access for the home and business, decoupling the 100 year reliance on copper cabling for access to Internet services across the UK. Copper is used in the following methods of network access within the UK: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line ( ADSL version 1, 2 and 2+) Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line ( VDSL version 1 and 2) - also called FTTC or Fibre to the Cabinet G.FAST (Probably the last standardised DSL technology that will be used in the UK, with

Parsed an output from a device and can't make heads or tails of it? This happens when you start looking at parsing data from devices and you're quote new to the world of pyATS, Genie or Python scripting. Outputs from devices are parsed using a specially-made Cisco or community-created scripts called parsers.  If you use the show ip interface brief parser your data goes from being human-readable (like this): LAB-1841-R1#show ip interface brief Interface                  IP-Address      OK? Method Status                Protocol FastEthernet0/0            203.0.113.1     YES NVRAM  up                    down FastEthernet0/1            192.168.0.69    YES NVRAM  up                    up Serial0/0/0                unassigned      YES NVRAM  administratively down down Loopback0                  192.0.2.1       YES NVRAM  up                    up To JSON-structured. Like this: {'interface': {'FastEthernet0/0': {'ip_address': '203.0.113.1', 'interfac