<div dir="ltr">Scott,<div><br></div><div style>I certainly read Lee Howard (in the article) as saying the cost of a CGN provisioned IPv4 user moving to $70 per year. <br><br>I actually do think the cost will go upwards with size. A lot of network devices scale inversely at the big end. For instance a firewall that easily supports say a 500 users could be got for a maybe $1000. But to put in firewall infrastructure to support 500 000 users I very much doubt you can do it for a $1M - certainly if you want to get similar levels of performance and availability. The operational costs can also be huge. Pure silicon might follow Moore's Law but I'm not sure that operating a CGN infrastructure falls into that pattern so easily. <br>
<br>My biggest beef with intransigence on IPv6 is that it will stymie the rollout of the "Internet of Things" that is going to bring a generational change in how we use technology.</div><div style><br></div><div style>
Martin<br><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Regards, Martin<br><br><a href="mailto:MartinVisser99@gmail.com">MartinVisser99@gmail.com</a></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 March 2013 06:45, Scott Howard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott@doc.net.au" target="_blank">scott@doc.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Kevin Karp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ausnog@pps.com.au" target="_blank">ausnog@pps.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">
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$US40/CGNuser/year *in the short term* moving up to $US70/CGNuser/year sounds like it would have some fairly dramatic effects on existing business models - to me at least.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Unless I'm mis-reading this, the "in the short term" is referring to the fact that this cost will come *down* over time, as CGN becomes more common/mainstream. There's no reason that the per-user cost of CGN should go up significantly over time, with the exception of the cost of the IP address to allocate to it - but even that cost is diluted due to it being shared over multiple users.</div>
<div><br></div><div>At no point does the article mention "moving up to $US70/CGNuser/year". You are completely mis-representing that.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div> Scott.</div>
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