Jack Bates wrote:
On 2/27/2015 2:47 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Folks,
Let's not go overboard here. Can we remember that most corporate and
campus (and, for that matter home) networks are symmetric, at least
at the edges. Personally, I figure that by deploying PON, the major
carriers were just asking for trouble down the line. It's not like
carrier-grade gigE switches are that much more expensive than PON gear.
I'll disagree on the home part. I doubt that most homes are symmetric.
Just to be clear - I'm talking about the local switch/router sitting on
a home network, not the connection to the outside world. Last time I
looked, commodity gigE switches were symmetric - good for network
attached storage, media servers, that sort of thing. (Come to think of
it, though, I've never paid attention to whether the WiFi side is
symmetric.)
Miles
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
