[151221] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Tue Mar 13 19:38:44 2012
In-Reply-To: <CAKnNFz-xpfSkFWcNBpMZ0ZV8oUBzp-dHjNp0aw1XArF9MeD3dg@mail.gmail.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:37:33 -0400
To: chris <tknchris@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:09 PM, chris <tknchris@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 13, 2012 7:04 PM, "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Justin M. Streiner
>> <streiner@cluebyfour.org> wrote:
>> > I realize this might be a bit of a fool's errand, but I'm trying to
>> > determine if Verizon will speak BGP with FiOS business customers.
>>
>> No. If you want to do BGP with Verizon, you have to buy a T1 at 10
>> times the cost and 1/10th of the speed.
>
> Haha true that. How else would.they.push their atm and.Ethernet products.
A cost I could live with. It's the fact that they won't sell me BGP
service in the FiOS product line *at all* that makes me pine for the
days of FCC mandated unbundling.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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