FTTH CPE landscape

Fri Aug 5 09:22:00 UTC 2011

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On Aug 5, 2011, at 4:59 AM, Tom Hill wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 01:23 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> A transparent router (sorry, poor choice of terminology on my part) is
>> a router which doesn't NAT or become selectively opaque (firewall). In
>> other words, it forwards packets and it doesn't do any other arbitrary
>> things to them at the whim of the ISP, but, rather passes along what
>> the customer gives it to the ISP and vice versa without interference.
> 
> So... It's a router?
> 
> I'm confused as to why the definition "router" exists to describe a
> device that NATs/selectively firewalls traffic, where "transparent
> router" describes something that just routes traffic.
> 
> What?

In the context of taking about CPE gear, it does seem wise to make the distinction. I suppose we can thank Linksys for that.

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