Not necessarily, for example:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/interfaces-modules/4g-lte-wireless-wan-enhanced-high-speed-wan-interface-card/datasheet_c78-710314.html

And the cisco 899G:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/800-series-routers/datasheet_c78-732744.html

It is becoming an increasingly standard method of redundant communications
to a site. The routers that the EHWIC module go into are commonly used in
enterprise MPLS edge deployments.



On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:

> It's not that.  LTE was made for cellular.  Ask any LTE vendor (other than
> Telrad) about doing anything other than NAT and they will ask "why would
> you want that?".  Ask them about running MPLS through a CPE and they'll
> think you're a lunatic.  To them the CPE is a cell phone.
>
> On 11/6/2015 8:35 AM, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
>
> I guess nobody ever thought that an ISP might *ever* want to deploy
> MPLS-capable edge routers at a CPE?  Considering the cost of the CPE radios
> and the APs it's pretty weird they do not support a 1600 byte MTU.
>
> Before anyone says "MPLS customers should be on their own PTP link if
> they're such an important business", there are numerous use cases for an
> MPLS customer router on smaller branch office size sites.
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:50 AM, Patrick Leary <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Here you go folks. If this generates more questions, post them and I’ll
>> seek more answers:
>>
>>
>>
>> Regarding the threads about MTU settings to run optimally, here is an
>> official response:
>>
>>
>>
>> “In both WiMAX and LTE the UE is configured with an MTU setting of
>> 1400.  This will enforce either MSS clamping (TCP) , PMTUD (LAN side) or
>> worst case fragmentation.  The only time MTU becomes an issue is in bridge
>> mode, in NAT mode the end user traffic will be working with a reduced MTU +
>> encapsulation headers (28 bytes) i.e. GRE (WiMAX)  GTP (LTE).
>>
>>
>>
>> Presently the Telrad BreezeWAY EPC can support  1918 and the eNodeB 1692.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regarding Telrad LTE UEs, the CPE7000 is limited to 1490 and the upcoming
>> CPE8000 it will be 1560 (Patrick note: I cannot give an exact timeline on
>> the CPE8000 beyond an *expectation* of end of Q1 2016, could be sooner);
>>
>>
>>
>> When working in bridge mode you can reduce the MTU of the LAN device or
>> rely on the UE to fragment.  Preventing fragmentation is optimal and this
>> can be achieved by limiting the MTU side on the LAN device connected to the
>> UE.”
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>>
>> Patrick Leary
>>
>> Telrad
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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