[151460] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keegan Holley)
Thu Mar 22 13:25:21 2012
In-Reply-To: <3E6EAB00-BA61-458A-BE17-43F7CE003C1E@puck.nether.net>
From: Keegan Holley <keegan.holley@sungard.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:22:58 -0400
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
2012/3/22 Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
>
> On Mar 22, 2012, at 11:05 AM, chris wrote:
>
> > I'm all for VZ being able to reclaim it as long as they open their fiber
> > which I don't see happening unless its by force via government. At the
> end
> > of the day there needs to be the ability to allow competitors in so of
> > course they shouldnt be allowed to rip out the regulated part and replace
> > it with a unregulated one.
>
Maybe I'm missing something, but how exactly does one share fiber? Isn't
it usually a closed loop between DWDM or Sonet nodes? It doesn't seem fair
to force the incumbents to start handing out lambdas and timeslots to their
competitors on the business side. I guess passive optical can be shared
depending on the details of the network, but that would still be much
different than sharing copper pairs.
