[155340] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Mon Aug 6 00:36:06 2012
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 21:35:33 -0700
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGUPRoz7gYbOzA4XFKoxH5c4fMMmCWWPzgBuVgDNvitW=Q@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, Andy Koch <gawul00@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 8/5/12 9:19 PM, William Herrin wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Frank Bulk <frnkblk@iname.com> wrote:
>> Would I like to have the same uptime
>> at my home as we have in the CO? or data center? Sure, but collectively we
>> aren't willing, nay, able, to pay that price.
> We paid the price for 3-nines on the home comm service 20 years ago.
> Did customer expectations change?
Given that a growing number of them don't even have residential voice
service that seems like a valid assumption.
> Or is the LEC just trying to pull a
> fast one since the tech isn't exactly the same?
The customer with naked dsl or cable without voice is not buying
telephony from the lec anyway. If all the members of the household have
the same cellular provider I guess they share fate.
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
>