----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brandon Ross" <br...@pobox.com>
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2013, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > > Available Providers. > > > > The City, remember, won't be doing L3, so we'd need to find someone > > who was doing that. You know how big a job it is to be a cable company? > > I would think in this model that the city would be prohibited from > providing those services. That is what I just said, yes, Brandon: the City would offer L1 optical home-run connectivity and optional L2 transport and aggregation with Ethernet provider hand-off, and nothing at any higher layers. > Perhaps I live in a different world, but just about all of the small to > midsize service providers I work with offer triple play today, and nearly > all of them are migrating their triple play services to IP. Really. Citations? I'd love to see it play that way, myself. > If rural telco in Alabama or Mississippi can deliver triple play, surely a > larger provider somewhere like NYC can do as well, no? Well, I ain't no NYC, but... :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274