On 30 July 2010 09:53, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
2. Yes, they are already available. A moderate PC with 4 Gig-E ports can actually route all four of them at near wire speed. For 10/100Mbps, you can get full featured CPE like the SRX-100 for around $500. That's the upper end of the residential CPE price range, but, it's a small fraction of the cost of that functionality just 2 years ago.
A moderate PC is not a typical CPE. An SRX-100 is not a typical CPE. A Draytek DSL modem/router is not a typical CPE. Your typical CPE is, and always will be, a simple device. It will (and should) contain no user configuration that is required for operation. If it does, it's too complicated for the average user.
Home sensor network and/or appliances
If it's really necessary to put these on a separate network, I highly doubt anyone but the true gadget geek will bother.
Kids net (nanny software?)
Should be sorted at the PC-level, not the network level. If it really is going to be a network service, it should be off the home network and a managed service by an ISP somewhere.
Home entertainment systems
Really? A separate network just for an HTPC?
Guest wireless
Wireless is polluted enough. Supposing everything's fixed in the future and there is near-unlimited wireless spectrum, your average user is just going to give the encryption key to the router to the guest. Network management is not on the radar for 99.9% of resi users. Seriously, this is getting silly. I'm not even going to respond any more - if you genuinely think users care about network management, you're wrong. They treat it as a black box, and that isn't going to change for a long, long, long time. M