[160205] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Brunner-Williams)
Sat Feb 2 13:24:39 2013
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 10:24:22 -0800
From: Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner@nic-naa.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 2/2/13 9:54 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>> > 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.
>
The L0 (ROW, poles & conduits) provider, and
in option #1 L1 connectivity provider, and
in option #2 L2 transport and aggregation provider,
aka "City"
is also a consumer of "City 2 City" service above L2, and
is also a consumer of "City 2 Subscriber" services above L2.
Creating the better platform for competitive access to the City's
L(option(s)) infrastructure must not prelude "City" as a provider.
Eric
