[143268] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FTTH CPE landscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Helms)
Thu Aug 4 18:08:18 2011
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:07:40 -0400
From: Scott Helms <khelms@ispalliance.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20110804215535.GA4756@dan.olp.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> For residential use, for users currently requesting one public address,
> that's a waste of a /30 block (sans routing tricks requiring higher end
> customer equipment). Multiply that by the number of residential customers
> you have and that's bordering on mismanagement of your address space.
>
> If you're dealing with business customers, then your usage versus wasted
> ratio is much higher and less of a concern, but what's the point? Are you
> trying to cut down on a large broadcast domain?
>
Any rational layer 2 access gear regardless of the technology (DSL,
FTTx, wireless, or DOCSIS) will/can handle layer 2 isolation already.
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