[47284] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Thu May 2 00:44:26 2002
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 00:43:20 -0400
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Cc: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>,
Peter Bierman <pmb+nanog@sfgoth.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>,
Beckmeyer <beck@pacbell.net>
To: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
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On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 10:33 , Steven J. Sobol wrote:
>
> On Wed, 1 May 2002, Deepak Jain wrote:
>
>> I'm more concerned that if the major metropolitan markets deploying
>> GPRS
>> all use NAT, then the Next Big Thing won't ever happen on GPRS devices.
>> Customers won't jump ship if they have no where to jump to.
>
> The only people who'd be deploying GPRS are GSM cellular providers, no?
The concern exists regardless of the specifics of the always-on,
cellular packet radio protocols being used, surely?
> [GSM coverage is patchy in the US]
It's prevalent elsewhere. I'd be surprised if there aren't more GSM
subscribers in the world than non-GSM subscribers.
Joe
