[151566] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Muni Fiber (was: Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Bulk)
Sat Mar 24 15:43:47 2012
From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk@iname.com>
To: "'Jay Ashworth'" <jra@baylink.com>,
"NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <30236862.7717.1332438692605.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:42:48 -0500
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
How many munis serve the rural like they do the urban?
In the vast majority of cases the munis end up doing what ILECs only =
wish they could do -- serve the most profitable customers.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Ashworth [mailto:jra@baylink.com]=20
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 12:52 PM
To: NANOG
Subject: Muni Fiber (was: Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc)
<snip>
Oh, it's *much* worse than that, John.
The *right*, long term solution to all of these problems is for=20
municipalities to do the fiber build, properly engineered, and even=20
subbed out to a contractor to build and possibly operate...=20
offering *only* layer 1 service at wholesale. Any comer can light up
each city's pop, and offer retail service over the FTTH fiber to that=20
customer at whatever rate they like, and the city itself doesn't offer=20
layer 2 or 3 service at all.
High-speed optical data *is* the next natural monopoly, after power=20
and water/sewer delivery, and it's time to just get over it and do it
right.
As you might imagine, this environment -- one where the LEC doesn't own
the physical plant -- scares the ever-lovin' daylights out of Verizon
(among others), so much so that they *have gotten it made illegal* in=20
several states, and they're lobbying to expand that footprint.
See, among other sites: http://www.muninetworks.org/
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. :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
Cheers,
-- jra
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