[afnog] XLAT646 deployment

[Mark Tinka]

On 7/5/21 09:46, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:

> My home is different ... clearly ... I just deployed 10G dual MM fiber links thru different paths among several floors and have over 300 VLANs, several APs, hundreds of devices (including all kind of IoT sensors and actuators), etc. It is a complete "lab".
>
> I understand that in many regions, this is not yet common, but it will come, as it is happening already in Europe, NA and some AP countries.

It is happening here, if you are Nishal, Mark, Andrew, Edrich, Edward, 
Ben, e.t.c. But just like you, Randy, Philip, Job, Owen, e.t.c., we are 
not representative of the wider demographic in any of our regions. I can 
tell you, exactly, just how much electricity every circuit breaker in my 
house is currently using on a per-second basis; I don't ever expect that 
to become the norm at scale.

Having a ton of devices and sensors in the home does not automatically 
mean that they would be connected on separate VLAN's. This goes for all 
regions in the world.

It is very likely that any new CPE's being deployed will have the 
capability of supporting multiple VLAN's, and if it all goes to plan, 
even a CLAT. But that doesn't mean that the customers will actually know 
about all that, or even care enough to figure out how to enable it.

All this stuff is great, but we need to remember how simple users 
approach the problem. They just want things to work, and can't be asked 
to deal with all the fuss. That's our problem.


> If the African ISPs take advantage of choosing a good CPE *now* which is almost the same price, they are making their investment "more" future proof, specially if that means saving IPv4 addresses and using that money for deploying IPv6 with better CPEs.

You need to remember that in Africa, the majority of users that access 
the Internet do so on or through their mobile phone. Fixed line services 
are on the rise, but they pale in comparison to mobile-based connectivity.

Mark.