[173368] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Jul 22 16:16:07 2014
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From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20428106.6802.1406055891570.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 13:10:51 -0700
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Jul 22, 2014, at 12:04 , Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Scott Helms" <khelms@zcorum.com>
>=20
>=20
>> I've done open access networks for several cities and _today_ the =
cleanest
>> situations by far (that I've seen) had the city handling layer 1 and =
2
>> with the layer 2 hand off being Ethernet regardless of the access
>> technology used.
>=20
> 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.
I'd be sort of OK with that approach, though I'd actually rather see the =
default reversed.
Owen
