[159940] in North American Network Operators' Group
Muni fiber: L1 or L2?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Jan 29 12:54:43 2013
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:54:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130129170500.GA38295@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Leo Bicknell" <bicknell@ufp.org>
> I am a big proponent of muni-owned dark fiber networks. I want to
> be 100% clear about what I advocate here:
>
> - Muni-owned MMR space, fiber only, no active equipment allowed. A
> big cross connect room, where the muni-fiber ends and providers are
> all allowed to colocate their fiber term on non-discriminatory terms.
> - 4-6 strands per home, home run back to the muni-owned MMR space.
> No splitters, WDM, etc, home run glass. Terminating on an optical
> handoff inside the home.
Hmmm. I tend to be a Layer-2-available guy, cause I think it lets smaller
players play. Does your position (likely more deeply thought out than
mine) permit Layer 2 with Muni ONT and Ethernet handoff, as long as clients
are *also* permitted to get a Layer 1 patch to a provider in the fashion you
suggest?
(I concur with your 3-pair delivery, which makes this more practical on an
M-A-C basis, even if it might require some users to have multiple ONTs...)
Cheers,
-- jra
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