On 01/11/2011 01:31 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
It's not about the number of devices. That's IPv4-think. It's about the number of segments. I see a world where each home-entertainment cluster would be a separate segment (today, few things use IP, but, future HE solutions will include Monitors, Amps, Blu-Ray players, and other Media gateways that ALL have ethernet ports for control and software update).
Your future is now, Owen. I have four network devices at my primary television -- the TV itself, TiVo, PS3, and Wii (using the wired adapter). All told, I have seven networked home entertainment devices in my house, with another (Blu-Ray player) likely coming soon. I feel confident in saying that my use case isn't unusual these days. While a lot of the scalability concerns are blown off as "not applying to typical consumers," we're quickly getting to the point where your average joe IS somewhat likely to have different classes of devices that might benefit from being on separate subnets. Jima