[121853] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast IPv6 Trials
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Durack)
Thu Jan 28 16:49:24 2010
In-Reply-To: <4B6204B3.2090508@uplogon.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:48:54 -0500
From: Tim Durack <tdurack@gmail.com>
To: Chris Gotstein <chris@uplogon.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Chris Gotstein <chris@uplogon.com> wrote:
> Typically the CPE address is private, not sure why they would use a
> public IP. =A0The MTA (VoIP) part of the modem would need a public IP if
> it was talking to a SIP server that was not on the same network. =A0Most
> smaller cable system outsource their VoIP to a reseller with a softswitch=
.
It's not necessarily "public", just globally unique. Some companies
have more than 17,891,328 devices they want to manage in a centralized
fashion.
--=20
Tim:>
