[173745] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sat Aug 2 13:47:22 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <201408020943.34566.mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 10:29:41 -0700
To: "mark.tinka@seacom.mu" <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I thought JRA was asking about the upstream cost.
Owen
> On Aug 2, 2014, at 0:43, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> wrote:
>
>> On Friday, August 01, 2014 07:17:24 PM Jay Ashworth wrote:
>>
>> So we'll assume we could get 4 for 22k to make the
>> arithmetic easy, and that means if we can put 44 people
>> on that, that the MRC cost is 500 dollars a month for a
>> gigabit. That is clearly not consumer pricing. Was
>> consumer pricing the assertion?
>
> I think Owen's pricing is based on 10Gbps router ports
> (Owen, correct me if I'm wrong).
>
> This is not the only way to sell 10Gbps services.
>
> Having said that, in context of home broadband, I was
> referring to AN's (Access Nodes), particularly based on
> Active-E (you don't generally place consumer customers
> directly on to 10Gbps router ports).
>
> The 10Gbps ports on an Active-E AN are in the same 1U
> chassis as the 44x Gig-E ports. And depending on how many
> you buy from vendors for your Access network, you can get
> pretty decent deals with good return if you get great uptake
> and have a sweet price point.
>
> Mark.
