RE: [EFM] Is "campus" P2MP out of scope?
Roy, John,
The PAR says "subscriber access networks". I agree with you both; that
campus/enterprise networks are out of scope, and not a focus of P2MP.
Gerry Pesavento
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> From: John.Egan@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:John.Egan@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 7:51 AM
> To: rabynum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: stds-802-3-efm@ieee.org
> Subject: RE: [EFM] Is "campus" P2MP out of scope?
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> Roy,
> I agree with your position.
> As you may recall from my PowerPoint submittal to the email
> reflector of 3-4 weeks ago, I see the marketing potential
> related to P2MP in an enterprise arena as quite small and so
> would strongly recommend that any requirements wanted for an
> enterprise-focused effort be put aside and a focus maintained
> on the Access arena. There is already enough work before the
> TF that expanding the effort to focus on a negligible market
> seems a misuse of resources at present. I recommend finishing
> the standard development for the core markets (Access) and
> then the TF considering if it should expend efforts on
> enterprise related issues.
>
> John
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Bynum [mailto:rabynum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 9:45 AM
> To: howard Frazier
> Cc: stds-802-3-efm@ieee.org
> Subject: [EFM] Is "campus" P2MP out of scope?
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> Howard,
>
> I am seeing several references to a "enterprise" type of "campus"
> deployment as a target for P2MP optical services. I may be
> mistaken, but I
> thought that this TF was working on support of "subscription
> networks"
> which, by my understanding, are commercial service access
> networks, not
> enterprise networks. Am I mistaken? If I am not, then that
> would make the
> need to support enterprise campus networks somewhat out of scope.
>
> I hate to see a lot of effort put into trying to support
> campus networks
> for ubiquitous shared access over optical media. From my experience,
> ubiquitous shared networks have an effective utilization of
> about 30%,
> depending on the number of nodes on the media. The support and
> maintenance of that type of topology in the enterprise campus
> environment
> would be very similar to the old "coax" system of years ago.
> At the lower
> utilization, an the high maintenance labor costs, the higher
> cost of the
> optical media would not be cost effective. I don't see much
> of a market
> for that type of deployment.
>
> Thank you,
> Roy Bynum
>