[160202] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sat Feb 2 12:54:39 2013
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 12:54:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brandon Ross" <bross@pobox.com>
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2013, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>
> > Available Providers.
> >
> > The City, remember, won't be doing L3, so we'd need to find someone
> > who was doing that. You know how big a job it is to be a cable company?
>
> I would think in this model that the city would be prohibited from
> providing those services.
That is what I just said, yes, Brandon: the City would offer L1 optical
home-run connectivity and optional L2 transport and aggregation with
Ethernet provider hand-off, and nothing at any higher layers.
> Perhaps I live in a different world, but just about all of the small to
> midsize service providers I work with offer triple play today, and nearly
> all of them are migrating their triple play services to IP.
Really. Citations? I'd love to see it play that way, myself.
> If rural telco in Alabama or Mississippi can deliver triple play, surely a
> larger provider somewhere like NYC can do as well, no?
Well, I ain't no NYC, but... :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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