Hi Mikael,
On Feb 26, 2015, at 11:39 , Mikael Abrahamsson <swm...@swm.pp.se> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2015, MUSCARIELLO Luca IMT/OLN wrote:
>
>> I wonder when we'll have software routers in residential networks to
>> innovate a little faster than what happens today just like how already
>> happens in some data centers.
>
> Well, it would help if operators tried to buy CPEs taht were not only
> bare-minimum for what they need today.
What is quite ironic is that many operators now switched to charge
rental fees for their under-powered, and not timely upgraded devices, rent that
could easily be used to purchase far more capable devices (that would actually
justify the rental fee).
>
> Right now I hear more about "virtualised CPE" to save cost (ie move part of
> the CPE implementation to the data center) than to spend more money on
> features in the CPE.
Well, the ingress traffic shaping definitely should be virtualized
upstream of the actual CPE!
>
> My hope is still on the mobile phone SoCs trickling down to the home gateway
> space so we get more CPU power there at decent price point.
But do we know whether mobile phone SOCs actually make good routers?
Best Regards
Sebastian
>
> Also possibly that the whole SDN movement means hardware will get
> standardized APIs so in case there is hardware acceleration on the CPE, this
> can be handled by any kernel and not just the kernel that the vendor has
> modified to work with their special hardware.
>
> --
> Mikael Abrahamsson email: swm...@swm.pp.se
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