[160178] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Bulk \(iname.com\))
Fri Feb 1 17:15:14 2013
From: "Frank Bulk \(iname.com\)" <frnkblk@iname.com>
To: "'Jay Ashworth'" <jra@baylink.com>,
"NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <23294966.4289.1359597671189.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 16:14:17 -0600
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
What's missing in this dialogue is the video component of an offering. =
Many customers like a triple (or quad) play because the price points are =
reasonable comparable to getting unbundled pricing from more than one =
provider, and they have just throat to choke and bill to pay.
But few IP TV providers will claim good profitability. And I don't =
believe any vendor has ActiveE and RFoG going down one strand.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Ashworth [mailto:jra@baylink.com]=20
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 8:01 PM
To: NANOG
Subject: Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your =
yard?
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jean-Francois Mezei" <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
<snip>
> A good layer 2 deployment can support DHCP or PPPoE and thus be
> compatible with incumbents infrastructure. However, a good layer2
> deployment won't have "RFoG" support and will prefer IPTV over the =
data
> channel (the australian model supports multicast). So cable companies
> without IPTV services may be at a disadvantage.
I think this depends on what handoffs my TE can provide at the customer
prem.
> In Canada, Rogers (cableco) has announced that they plan to go all
> IPTV instead of conventional TV channels.
Well, the MythTV people will be happy to hear that.
Or they would, if the content people would quit holding a gun to the=20
heads of the transport people.
Cheers,
-- jra
--=20
Jay R. Ashworth Baylink =
jra@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think =
RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land =
Rover DII
St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 =
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