[121644] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using /31 for router links
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Sat Jan 23 15:53:32 2010
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:53:12 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <1001232020.AA23616@ivan.Harhan.ORG>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Michael Sokolov wrote:
>
> Wait a moment here. With a MAN/WAN involving wires/fiber running over
> public property, what one is paying for is the right to use those wires
> for your data, right? The wires themselves do NOT run Ethernet at the
> electrical level, so if you have some "MAN/WAN Ethernet" service, there
> is a black box of some kind that converts the native electrical signal
> format to Ethernet. Why not take that black box out of service, use it
> for baseball practice (Office Space style), and use the exact same
> wires/fiber (rented at exactly the same monthly recurring price) in its
> native non-Ethernet form?
>
Well, I have an OC-12 upstairs that has an Overture box attached to it
because: Ethernet is not tariffed and the OC-12 is. The price difference
between the two was substantial (even though it's the same thing) and I
was going for "cheap alternate path". If they were the same price I
would have probably just taken it directly.
~Seth
