[160282] in North American Network Operators' Group
muni L1 example (WAS: Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Osmon)
Sun Feb 3 12:42:39 2013
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 10:44:07 -0700
From: John Osmon <josmon@rigozsaurus.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130203170443.GB44479@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 09:04:43AM -0800, Leo Bicknell wrote:
[...]
> People are doing this, and it does work, it's just being done in
> locations the big telcos and cablecos have written off...
To re-iterate this point, and get a note into the archives -- Muni
networks *can* work.
Idaho Falls, ID has been offering dark fiber strands to anyone since
2007 or so:
http://www.ifcirca.net/
When I last had network in the area, the cost was on the order of:
- $1500/month/loop
- $20/bldg on loop
- one-time construction costs
