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Re: SP's and v4 block assignments
From: Jeff Wheeler <jsw () inconcepts biz>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:46:57 -0400
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Nathan Eisenberg <nathan () atlasnetworks us> wrote:
As for charging for residential static assignments, I don't think it's all that odd, or 'despicable'. Allocating static assignments consumes engineer time for configuration and documentation. On a business class service, you can eat that cost fairly easily. On a low-yield residential circuit, there has to be some long term ROI because that work probably takes the margin out of the service for months.
"Engineer time" is not an issue. If it requires an "engineer" for "configuration" and "documentation," the provisioning process is already flawed. The reason to not want residential users to have static IPs is that these users represent large chunks of traffic which can be easily moved from one group of HFC channels to another when additional capacity must be created by breaking up access network segments. If many users had a static IP, this would be more difficult. Since most users don't have a static IP, the overhead of dealing with the few users who do is entirely manageable, especially when these users are paying a higher fee. -- Jeff S Wheeler <jsw () inconcepts biz> Sr Network Operator / Innovative Network Concepts
Current thread:
- Re: SP's and v4 block assignments, (continued)
- Re: SP's and v4 block assignments Owen DeLong (Mar 15)
- Re: SP's and v4 block assignments Jon Lewis (Mar 15)
- Re: SP's and v4 block assignments Patrick W. Gilmore (Mar 15)
- Re: SP's and v4 block assignments Leo Bicknell (Mar 15)
- Re: SP's and v4 block assignments Owen DeLong (Mar 15)
- Re: SP's and v4 block assignments Jeroen van Aart (Mar 18)
- Re: SP's and v4 block assignments Owen DeLong (Mar 18)
- Re: SP's and v4 block assignments TR Shaw (Mar 18)
- Re: SP's and v4 block assignments Owen DeLong (Mar 19)
- RE: SP's and v4 block assignments Nathan Eisenberg (Mar 19)
- Re: SP's and v4 block assignments Jeff Wheeler (Mar 19)
- Re: SP's and v4 block assignments Owen DeLong (Mar 20)
- Re: SP's and v4 block assignments Jeff Wheeler (Mar 20)
- Re: SP's and v4 block assignments Jon Lewis (Mar 18)