FTTH CPE landscape

Fri Aug 5 17:47:18 UTC 2011

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Owen DeLong" <owen at 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.

Cheers,
-- jra
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