[173358] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Tue Jul 22 15:15:38 2014
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:09:41 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
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On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> Yes; when we did this back in '12, that was my proposal: city handles
> layer 2 aggregation and the ONTs, and we'll hand you off 1q ethernet...
> or, if you really *want* to put gear in our rack room, we'll
> cross-connect you to the relevant fibers, and let you handle layer 2
> yourself.
This has been done on a fairly wide scale in Sweden for 10-12 years. We're
now seeing the L2 muni networks being major hinderance for IPv6
deployment because of their L2.5+ functions (see my earlier email).
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
