Waves are a unit of optical transport. Similar to PON, you can get several
wavelengths on the same fiber and sell them to different users, Split them
at both ends. Thats the whole 'point of DWDM. It's not just faster speeds
or less cable

On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 7:16 PM Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca> wrote:

>
> Thanks for bringing us this view..
>
> Darrell Budic <budic@onholyground.com> wrote:
>     > - v6 is deliberately
>     > not fully functional, but they know some of use are using it and it
>     > will eventually be fully activated. May be waiting on the regional
>     > connectivity, so will be intersting to see if changes for some areas
>     > and not others as they roll it out.
>
> Even if they used IPv6 for the "last mile" and ran NAT64, that would still
> be
> a major improvement over trying to run dual stack.   That's what the
> smarter
> mobile operators are already doing. (jio, some US carriers...)
>
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