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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