If your 100% full you need more capacity, basic redundancy should allow one edge router to fail at any given time. This is part of the point of 95th percentile billing if you have say 2 providers with the same sized pipe your peak utilization should never exceed 100% of a link, money wise your paying the difference in the per mbs rate and the port cost.

Hate to break it to ya software has always defined networks.

There is a lot of noise about moving the management side out of the chassis. This does not magically make a L3 switch with a a 32k entry fib work as a core BGP router. In some ways it's nice you can stop paying your vendor for massively overpriced licences to turn on sunk cost features. It gets very scary when they want to throw boxes all over the place but centralize management. It realy seems like an excuse to keep putting in pitifully small CPU on L3 devices where a few hundred bucks for a xeon to run the high level stuff overseeing a mips arm etc that's dealing with low level hardware.

But I guess it's to be expected these were the same sort of people that though 2 switches in a stack were redundant.

They can do that in china not so much the rest of the world. So for most there is little fear from the Chinese government. Primary issue would be industrial spying.

Best thing ever they will get out of my way while I speed down the left lane.

It pretty much is 64 bits, anything more than that is the local segment, Pop a human readable version of the ipv4 address if the last /64 if you like.

1234:abcd:5678:abcd:192:168:1:1 effectively means you just need to remember the first 64 that's the same for the subnet.

You only have to remember the prefix, after that you can easily put the human readable version of the box's ipv4 address. In a corp environment it's easy to have a site ID coupled with vlan ID.

The whole concept of automatic addressing for anything but desktops is broken, security devices and routers often do not and should not have and DNS servers defined. IPv6 is perfectly happy with static addressing, do wish somebody would set aside a /8 or something for default everything's.

What makes you think they do not have it now?

1 Conduit lots of it all back to a utilities room. Fill with cat 6 or better today. Your going to want one end point per wall in a room plus some ceiling/wall mounts for Wifi.
2 Home automation, zwave has gotten cheap but pick your poison of standards. While I do not find colors that useful being able to have different temp whites is gear mid winter etc. Remember that LED are flexible in placement indirect lighting is often much more pleasant. If your just looking to prep the main stumbling block tends to be small electrical work boxes and lack of a common through the box.
3 Insulation if you have the cash closed cell foam along with an air to air heat exchanger.
4 Heating, geothermal it's power use is electric so ties well with solar. Radiant floor is the nicest.
5 Hot Water, geothermal ng/propane backup
6 Power, pretty much put up as big a solar array as you can get on the roof, Couple this with a propane/ng gen set. Propane is the only thing you can store locally for an extended period. When they stop buying power back and retail rates plan space for a battery.
7 Kitchen ng/propane except for the oven.
8 Cooling, geothermal. Make sure that the system can de/humidify the house without heating/cooling it.
9 Electrical, AFCI's are generally code use them wherever possible. Insure that as much as feasible is home run back to the panel. Install more than the code minimum outlets. For example my desk area was run with 4 30a 110v feeds, It was trivial to replace one of them with a 240v 30a and I watched my heaviest power consumption are drop 5% so less heat to cool etc etc.
10 CCTV pretty much just more cat 6 going to enough points so you get 360 coverage with overlap. Some people like camera's in their home I'm not a fan.

Probably the best thing they can do is throw resources at it, hire an existing dev to do it full time sort of thing.

You forget that RoHS was good for china it made no real change to their exports and it was potentially better for their labor force.

Considering that china agreed to is pretty week and heavily skewed in there favor, they will stop emissions growth by 2030. With the US pledging to go down 25% from it's 2005 numbers by 2025. That is not fair nor equitable, it's china getting to say they are doing something in 15 years.

Your thinking that the 3rd world wont gain in their living standard (it has to happen) the system has to account for it. China has huge amounts of foreign debt and will not sit idly by and accept import taxes, if they refuse to roll that over that is a world wide economic crisis. This is pretty much the stick approach.

Current fission has issues related to proliferation, those are fixable issues. The key is making a cheap reliable and safe baseload electric generation that is agile.

That plans has a number of non starters, like cap and trade, sure lets go get the whole world to participate in it. There is no fair way to implement it. If you use current levels current bad actors like china are rewarded. If you use by population again china is rewarded, and the US would be massively penalized.

Prioritizing renewable on the grid means the least agile generators (who are also the cheapest) get the short end.

Government guarantee's for private investment is broken by design, if your going to subsidize rewards they might as well do it themselves as gov capital is cheaper. To do otherwise just pushes business to game the system.

Their plan fails at rapidly increasing the standard of living of a massive amount of the worlds population. To do so we need a LOT of cheap energy production, it's not enough to keep the status quo the third world needs to come up while we keep growth in the first.

Will the make a nexus 4 or 5 since a 6 is to fsking big to be useful and costs 2x as much.

Purchasing it at retail rates sure as hell is.

Bring back hypercard