[173308] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Jul 22 00:04:46 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <53CDBD71.2040402@meetinghouse.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:59:05 -0700
To: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Jul 21, 2014, at 18:25 , Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> =
wrote:
> goemon@anime.net wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>>> - the anti-muni laws hurt small localities the most, where none of =
the big players have any intent of deploying anything
>>=20
>> This is exacatly why ashland fiber network came to be. Because no =
provider was willing to step up and provide service. So the city did it.
>>=20
>> If there were laws against it there, then ashland would still have no =
service at all to this day.
>>=20
>=20
> Is that Ashland, Oregon? I did some consulting on that project. The =
way it started was:
> - They needed to run a pair of fibers from City Hall to an =
out-building
> - US West (I think) quoted $5k/month/fiber, at which point,
> - the Mayor asked the director of the muni electric utility "what =
would it cost to run some fiber"
> - after some head scratching and some research, it came down to =
$100,000, one time - mostly for the tooling and some training (they had =
the poles, bucket trucks, linesman who were rated to work near live =
electric wires who were sitting around waiting for the next storm to =
hit)
> - after that, it was a no-brainer to start expanding the network
>=20
> The cool thing about the project:
> - Ashland has a bunch of places that do Hollywood post-production - =
they eat up tons of bandwidth shipping stuff around - really great for =
that segment
No to mention a wonderful Shakespeare festival, a number of very nice =
restaurants with good food and a pretty neat downtown to explore.
Need to get back up there... It's been a few years, but it's a lovely =
place to visit.
Owen
