[173800] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Bicknell)
Wed Aug 6 11:24:21 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
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Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 10:23:55 -0500
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Aug 4, 2014, at 11:13 AM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
> 1. Enthusiasm (hence funding) for public works projects waxes and
> wanes. Generally it waxes long enough to get some portion of the
> original works project built, then it wanes until the project is in
> major disrepair, then it waxes again long enough to more or less fix
> it up.
Others have hit on the major points, but just to summarize.
The big one is the provider is going to charge an O&M fee for the =
services,
be it the dark fiber or a L2 lit service. Fiber cuts will happen, =
connectors
will be broken, and gear will die. One would hope this continuous =
funding
source could even out some of the municipal funding hurdles, if done =
ideally
the network would be built in tax dollars, but then be fully =
self-sustaining
moving forward.
The second one is, if you require both L1 dark fiber, and allow L2 lit
services, this problem "self solves". If the L2 is capped at a 1G, and
the world has moved to 10G, the people who need it will just move to=20
the L1/dark offering and away from the L2 offering. That is, they have
an option, and that's what this is all about, options. Unlike telecoms
that might choose not to sell the dark fiber to force you into a lit =
service,
such a muni-network should be required to sell the dark to all providers
all the time.
By drawing an (admittedly somewhat arbitrary) boundary between L1/L2 and =
L3-L7,
I think a situation can be created where there is maximum flexibility on =
both
sides of that boundary, and the least chance of "stupidity" from players =
on
either side.
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Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440
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