[160234] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Followup: Small City Municipal Broadband
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Bicknell)
Sat Feb 2 18:30:26 2013
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 15:30:05 -0800
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Mail-Followup-To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.02.1302021804110.492@brugal.local>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
--SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
In a message written on Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 06:14:56PM -0500, Brandon Ross=
wrote:
> This whole thing is the highway analogy to me. The fiber is the road.=20
> The city MIGHT build a rest stop (layer 2), but shouldn't be allowed to=
=20
> either be in the trucking business (layer 3), nor in the=20
> business of manufacturing the products that get shipped over the road=20
> (IPTV, VOIP, etc.), and the same should apply to the company that=20
> maintains the fiber, if it's outsourced.
I think your analogy is largely correct (I'm not sure Rest Stop =3D=3D
Layer 2 is perfect, but close enough), but it is a very important
way of describing things to a non-technical audience.
FTTH should operate like roads in many respects. From ownership
and access, to how the network is expanded. For instance a new
neighborhood would see the developer build both the roads and fiber
to specifications, and then turn them over to the municipality.
Same model.
Having multiple people build the infrastructure would be just as
inefficeint as if every house had two roads built to it by two private
companies.
--=20
Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440
PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
--SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD)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=H52C
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s--
