[160181] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Baugher)
Fri Feb 1 17:38:29 2013
In-Reply-To: <000701ce00c9$7a443540$6ecc9fc0$@iname.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 16:38:18 -0600
From: Jason Baugher <jason@thebaughers.com>
To: "Frank Bulk (iname.com)" <frnkblk@iname.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Management has asked us why we can't do RF overlay on our AE system. :)
We've had to explain a few times why that would be too expensive even if it
were available because of the high cost of the amps/splitters/combiners to
insert 1550nm onto every AE fiber.
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Frank Bulk (iname.com) <frnkblk@iname.com>wrote:
> 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]
> 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
> heads of the transport people.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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