Owen,
The fact that you're immediately going to routing means you don't
understand the problem. The costs I'm talking about don't have anything
to do with routing or any of the core gear and everything to do with the
pieces at the customer premise. Routers cost more to purchase than
bridges because there is more complexity (silicon & software). Routers
also cost more to manage for a service provider in almost all cases for
residential customers. There are reasons to deploy routing CPE in some
cases (the use cases are increasing with IP video in DOCSIS systems) but
they are still very nascent.
On 8/10/2011 7:24 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
I'm pretty sure that I understand those things reasonably well. I'm quite
certain that it doesn't
cost an ISP significantly more to deploy /48s than /56s as addresses don't have
much of a
cost and there is little or no difficulty in obtaining large allocations for
ISPs that have lots of
residential users. The difference between handing a user's CPE a /56 and a /48
will not make
for significant difference in support costs, either, other than the possible
additional costs of
the phone calls when users start to discover that /56s were not enough.
Owen
On Aug 10, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Scott Helms wrote:
Tim,
Hence the "might". I worry when people start throwing around terms like routing in
the home that they don't understand the complexities of balancing the massive CPE installed base,
technical features, end user support, ease of installation& managemenet, and (perhaps most
importantly) the economics of mass adoption. This one of the choices that made DSL deployments
more complex and expensive than DOCSIS cable deployments which in turn caused the CEO of AT&T
to say their entire DSL network is obsolete.
http://goo.gl/exwqu
On 8/10/2011 12:57 PM, Tim Chown wrote:
On 10 Aug 2011, at 16:11, Scott Helms wrote:
Neither of these are true, though in the future we _might_ have deployable
technology that allows for automated routing setup (though I very seriously
doubt it) in the home. Layer 2 isolation is both easier and more reliable than
attempting it at layer 3 which is isolation by agreement, i.e. it doesn't
really exist.
Well, there is some new effort on this in the homenet WG in IETF.
For snooping IPv6 multicast it's MLD snooping rather than IGMP. We use it in
our enterprise since we have multiple multicast video channels in use.
Tim
On 8/10/2011 9:02 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
Bridging eliminates the multicast isolation that you get from routing.
This is not a case for bridging, it's a case for making it possible to do real
routing in the home and we now have the space and the technology to
actually do it in a meaningful and sufficiently automatic way as to be
applicable to Joe 6-Mac.
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Scott Helms
Vice President of Technology
ISP Alliance, Inc. DBA ZCorum
(678) 507-5000
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http://twitter.com/kscotthelms
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Scott Helms
Vice President of Technology
ISP Alliance, Inc. DBA ZCorum
(678) 507-5000
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http://twitter.com/kscotthelms
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