[143728] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Exploiting a non-facilities CLEC relationship
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles N Wyble)
Tue Aug 16 02:08:53 2011
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:08:09 -0500
From: Charles N Wyble <charles@knownelement.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1108152308470.3994@soloth.lewis.org>
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On 08/15/2011 10:14 PM, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Graham Wooden wrote:
> If I understand your question, yes. We did this some time ago. Colo
> in various ILEC and CLEC central offices,
Um. Doesn't colo in various ILEC/CLEC CO == facilities based CLEC?
> order T1 loops (but it's only half a loop...from customer to CO), so
> you're saving there, and because you're ordering it as a CLEC, most
> people would be shocked how cheap a T1 can be. Connect the various
> colos together with a network of T1's and T3's (especially if you can
> establish a relationship with a carrier who's on-net in all or most of
> the COs you want to be in), and you're set.
Interesting. Can't you just ride the existing network between the CO
locations? For a fee of course, but I would think it could be all
ethernet based and just pay per mb or something?
>
> Someone looking to start this model now, I'd say is about 10 years
> late, 5 years too late.
Yeah. Building ones own network is a bit... difficult. At least to serve
on a competitive basis.
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