[151273] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Wed Mar 14 16:03:52 2012
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1203141518480.26953@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:02:29 -0400
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Justin M. Streiner
<streiner@cluebyfour.org> wrote:
> The point (and this goes back to my original post) was that VZ is missing
> out on revenue (and customer service, but let's not get ahead of
> ourselves...)
> opportunities by not offering such a thing as an add-on for their busines=
s-
> class FiOS services. =A0If they brand it and bill at as a business-class
> service, then allowing someone to multihome using FiOS and something else
> does not seem like such an unreasonable request.
Well... they brand it as a SOHO service and AFAICT they refuse to
install "business fios" anywhere zoned commercial.
If they would actually connect it to a commercial facility, there'd be
no shortage of third parties willing to do a fios line pair plus a
tunnel and then drive whatever data over it that you wanted.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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