Re: FTTH CPE landscape

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Aug 5, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Owen DeLong" <owen () delong com>
>
> > > It differs from a bridge in that *it requires a chunk of routable IP space
> > > to put behind it*, and a route to go there. For the specific situation
> > > I posited, a consumer connection, you can get a static IP, but you *will
> > > not* get routable space; you have to go to a business connection for
> > > that, at 2-4 times the cost.
> >
> > That really depends on the ISP, doesn't it?
>
> Sure.  If you'd prefer, substitute "large, consumer ISP -- on the order of
> Verizon DSL or Road Runner".  Both of those have told me that in the past,
> and, these days, I don't think they're unrepresentative of the common case.
Sure, but, there's more than one way to solve the problem.

Owen

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