[151480] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber (was: Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Young)
Thu Mar 22 17:13:54 2012
From: Jeff Young <young@jsyoung.net>
In-Reply-To: <30236862.7717.1332438692605.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:12:43 +1100
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 23/03/2012, at 4:51 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> As you might imagine, I am a fairly strong proponent of muni layer 1 --
> or even layer 2, where the municipality supplies (matching) ONTs, and
> services have to fit over GigE -- fiber delivery of high-speed data
> service.
>
> I believe Google agrees with me. :-)
And the country of Australia agrees with you (at least more than half of
it). The current nature of FTTH makes it hard to do a layer 1-only service
and the NBN has opted to provide layer 2 hand-off at POI's (points of
interconnect) around Australia.
jy
