RE: vpls scaling question

> How many  households contain  more than  one site, and  want
> those  sites to
> appear to be on a common LAN?

consider:
one VLAN for internet access (consumer service)
one VLAN for telecommuting (business service)


>
> Surely for residential households, you want to treat each one
> as a single IP
> subnet, and  connect them to  a router.  I  don't see where
> VPLS  even comes
> into it.  Am I missing something?
>
>
the VLAN ID may be used to identify traffic of a customer within a
particular service provider's network.
the IP service(s) may be provided by a different service provider(s)