On Thu, 26 Feb 2015, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:

> Erm, how does that work? What part of the functionality can reasonably 
> be moved to the data center? The configuration web interface?

Basically you extend the home L2 domain via some kind of tunnel or vlan to 
a server, and run the CPE there.

The only thing left in the home is basically L2 bridging between WAN, LAN 
and Wifi and the possibiliy of configuring settings such as Wifi SSID, 
crypto etc.

http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos14.1/topics/concept/ccpe-overview.html

http://blogs.cisco.com/sp/home-gateway-cpe-virtualization

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