[139056] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Fri Mar 25 22:02:24 2011
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:02:19 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110325201104.GA38866@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2011, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> Having looked around the world I personally believe most communities
> would be best served if the government provided layer-1 distribution,
> possibly with some layer 2 switching, but then allowed any commercial
> entity to come in and offer layer 3 services. For simplicity of
> argument I like people to envision the local government fiber agency
> (like your water authority) dropping off a 1 port fiber 4 port
> copper switch in your basement. On that device they can create a
> layer 2 VLAN/VPN/Tunnel from any of the copper ports to any provider
> in the town CO. You could buy video from one, voice from one, and
> internet from another, on three different ports. You could buy
> everything from one provider.
And the natural question is - how will this differ from the way the
"government" services like water, power and transportation have
been run, privatised-but-not-quite, etc?
Adrian
