Re: vepc draft Rev. 04 - /62s to UE, not /64s

For lack of a better description, the cellular side of businesses suffer
> from "bell head:" thinking, where the UE is an application endpoint.
> Nothing more occurs to them, because that is the product they have always
> supported. A routing function implies higher aggregate data rates than they
> have built the system to handle. I have been in front of many of them
> holding up UE and saying, "this is a ROUTER, get over it", and got nothing
> but blank stares back.
>
> The first use case on the list should be a wireline alternative/backup
> link for consumer CPE routers, and home control or security systems. That
> is simpler to support because the UE doesn't move around, so they can scale
> the infrastructure to align with demand without too much concern about that
> shifting quickly. Once the fear of downstream subnets is removed, working
> on the truly mobile use cases will be an easier mental hurdle to overcome.
>

Amen.

I know that such backup solutions with routed IPv4 networks were done for
enterprise access (not a standard but easily doable).


>
> Tony
>
> ...........
>
>

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