On 12/27/24 05:15, Jason Bothe via NANOG wrote:
I’m thinking there is not a a wide market for them, not to mention
last mile support. Folks that need 100 or 400 ports typically want
point to point and at that juncture, wavelength or IPoDWDM makes sense
as more than likely these are going between data centers and not to
your average enterprise premises in a multi tenant building. Just MHO.
This is correct.
It is a lot of capacity to put in the hands of a router that is sharing
its hardware and capacity with other services that have nothing to do
with plain transport. Also, it is a cheaper way to deliver transport
capacity for both operator and customer.
Mark.
