Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-14 Thread Mark Tinka
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 05:24:56 PM Jay Ashworth wrote: > Given the context of the conversation, I was hoping it > was clear I meant a *wet* port, not just a jack on a > card... Indeed. Mark. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-14 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Mark Tinka" > On Monday, August 04, 2014 04:38:39 PM Jay Ashworth wrote: > > So that implies he really did mean 44x GigE to end-prem, > > from 4 $5500 10G ports -- or, $500/home in MRC *cost* to > > the provider. > > > > I'm confused. > > With an edge router

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-13 Thread Mark Tinka
On Monday, August 04, 2014 04:38:39 PM Jay Ashworth wrote: > So that implies he really did mean 44x GigE to end-prem, > from 4 $5500 10G ports -- or, $500/home in MRC *cost* to > the provider. > > I'm confused. With an edge router chassis filled with 10Gbps ports for various things, they quickl

Re: Remooted: a deployment design for Muni Fiber (was Re: Muni Fiber and Politics)

2014-08-07 Thread Owen DeLong
On Aug 5, 2014, at 4:01 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: > Is there any way we could stop this discussion until we can get some > participants who have experience doing things like emergency post-ice-storm > overhead circuit restoration to show up and explain exactly why charging a > small one-time

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-06 Thread Matthew Kaufman
On 8/6/2014 9:39 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: So is what I am proposing. In fact, I'm pretty sure my proposal is cheaper, especially in the long run. So build one already! Matthew Kaufman

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-06 Thread John Osmon
On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 10:23:55AM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote: [...] > 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

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-06 Thread Owen DeLong
> On Aug 5, 2014, at 10:56, Eugeniu Patrascu wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> >> >> >> >> This one is a bad idea cause you have lots of people pushing fiber through >> >> pipes with active fiber in them... and their incentives not to screw up >> >> other peopl

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-06 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Aug 4, 2014, at 11:13 AM, William Herrin 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 l

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-05 Thread Jima
On 2014-08-02 15:15, Leo Bicknell wrote: But if those cities were to build a municipal fiber network like we've described, and pay for it with 15-20 year municipal bonds the ISP's wouldn't have to bear those costs. They could come in drop one box in a central location and start offering servic

Re: Remooted: a deployment design for Muni Fiber (was Re: Muni Fiber and Politics)

2014-08-05 Thread Rob Seastrom
Matthew Kaufman writes: > In the meantime, I'd like to see the city where an ISP can buy as many > of the microducts as they want. I'd like to buy them all, > please... though I have no intention of running anything though them, > as I'm an investor in the local cable TV company. The fire ants

Re: Remooted: a deployment design for Muni Fiber (was Re: Muni Fiber and Politics)

2014-08-05 Thread Matthew Kaufman
Is there any way we could stop this discussion until we can get some participants who have experience doing things like emergency post-ice-storm overhead circuit restoration to show up and explain exactly why charging a small one-time fee for a fiber from A to Z is probably not a sustainable mo

Remooted: a deployment design for Muni Fiber (was Re: Muni Fiber and Politics)

2014-08-05 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "William Herrin" > > All ran by an entity forbidden from retail. > > Nonononono, bad plan. I want a fiber from my home to my storefront on > main street, but I'm a consumer not a retailer so I can't buy just > one? Or hey, so sorry but the cable MuniFiber ran

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-05 Thread Eugeniu Patrascu
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:26 PM, William Herrin wrote: > > Hi Eugeniu, > > The word you're searching for is "microduct." > That's it, I wasn't sure about it. > I'm a big fan of Microduct. There's even some wicked cool equipment > which will force the core out of in-place coax plant, converting

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-05 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Eugeniu Patrascu wrote: > So how is blowing microfibre in some tubes more expensive? You pay a one > off installation fee and then a small monthly rate for the circuit (payable > yearly). > > The really nice and geeky part is that you can actually choose how your >

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-05 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 1:34 AM, mcfbbqroast . wrote: > I agree with this, a monopoly is ok if the government regulates it properly > and effectively. > > I'm a fan of either: > > Dark fibre to every house. > > Fiber to every house with a soft handover to the ISP. > > All ran by an entity forbidden

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-05 Thread Eugeniu Patrascu
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > >> > >> This one is a bad idea cause you have lots of people pushing fiber > through > >> pipes with active fiber in them... and their incentives not to screw up > >> other people's glass are... unclear? :-) > > > > Not really, if one compan

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-05 Thread Owen DeLong
>> >> This one is a bad idea cause you have lots of people pushing fiber through >> pipes with active fiber in them... and their incentives not to screw up >> other people's glass are... unclear? :-) > > Not really, if one company starts making mistakes, the other will also > mistake their cabl

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-05 Thread Eugeniu Patrascu
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Eugeniu Patrascu" > > > In my neck of the woods, the city hall decided that no more fiber cables > > running all over the poles in the city and somehow combined with some EU > > regulations that communi

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-05 Thread Owen DeLong
On Aug 4, 2014, at 10:34 PM, mcfbbqroast . wrote: > I agree with this, a monopoly is ok if the government regulates it properly > and effectively. > > I'm a fan of either: > > Dark fibre to every house. > > Fiber to every house with a soft handover to the ISP. The problem with soft handover

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-04 Thread mcfbbqroast .
I agree with this, a monopoly is ok if the government regulates it properly and effectively. I'm a fan of either: Dark fibre to every house. Fiber to every house with a soft handover to the ISP. All ran by an entity forbidden from retail. Ideally a mix of both, soft handover for no thrills ISP

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-04 Thread Owen DeLong
On Aug 4, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Eugeniu Patrascu wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > OTOH, if the municipality provides only L1 concentration (dragging L1 > facilities > back to centralized locations where access providers can connect to large > numbers of customers)

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-04 Thread Owen DeLong
On Aug 4, 2014, at 11:11 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Owen DeLong wrote: >>> Single mode fiber's usefulness doesn't expire within any funding >>> horizon applicable to a municipality. Gige service and any other lit >>> service you can come up with today does. >> Well, not in the foreseeable futur

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-04 Thread Owen DeLong
On Aug 4, 2014, at 10:27 AM, William Herrin wrote: > On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: I can never see a case where letting them play at Layer 3 or above helps. >>> >>> Layers 2 and 3 are fuzzy these days. I think that's a bad place to draw a >>> line. >>> >>> Rather d

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "William Herrin" > I can think of issues that arise when the municipality provides layer > 2 services. > > 1. Enthusiasm (hence funding) for public works projects waxes and > wanes. Generally it waxes long enough to get some portion of the > original works p

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Eugeniu Patrascu" > In my neck of the woods, the city hall decided that no more fiber cables > running all over the poles in the city and somehow combined with some EU > regulations that communication links need to be buried, they created a > project whereby

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-04 Thread Eugeniu Patrascu
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > > OTOH, if the municipality provides only L1 concentration (dragging L1 > facilities > back to centralized locations where access providers can connect to large > numbers of customers), then access providers have to compete to deliver > what

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
Owen DeLong wrote: Single mode fiber's usefulness doesn't expire within any funding horizon applicable to a municipality. Gige service and any other lit service you can come up with today does. Well, not in the foreseeable future, anyway. I'm sure there was a time when that claim could have bee

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-04 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >>> I can never see a case where letting them play at Layer 3 or above helps. >> >> Layers 2 and 3 are fuzzy these days. I think that's a bad place to draw a >> line. >> >> Rather draw the line between providing a local interconnect versus >> pr

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-04 Thread Owen DeLong
> Single mode fiber's usefulness doesn't expire within any funding > horizon applicable to a municipality. Gige service and any other lit > service you can come up with today does. Well, not in the foreseeable future, anyway. I'm sure there was a time when that claim could have been made about co

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-04 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > On Aug 1, 2014, at 9:44 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> IMHO, experience has taught us that the lines provider (or as I >> prefer to call them, the Layer 1 infrastructure provider) must be >> prohibited from playing at the higher layers. > > Owen ha

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > > On Aug 2, 2014, at 0:43, Mark Tinka 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

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-03 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Date: Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 05:11:09AM +0200 Quoting Mark Tinka (mark.ti...@seacom.mu): > On Sunday, August 03, 2014 01:31:17 AM Måns Nilsson wrote: > > > Oh, yes, there is. Multicast? IPv6? Both CAN be done, but > > probably won't. >

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On Sunday, August 03, 2014 01:31:17 AM Måns Nilsson wrote: > Oh, yes, there is. Multicast? IPv6? Both CAN be done, but > probably won't. I'm talking about the opportunities large bandwidth presents, non-technical issues aside. Certainly, IPv6 and Multicast have a place on a 1Gbps link into the

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-02 Thread Corey Touchet
But in the cases of small rural communities it¹s perfectly reasonable to just setup wifi to cover the town and backhaul a DS3 back to a more connected location. There¹s plenty of small wireless companies out there trying to serve these folks. On 8/2/14, 3:15 PM, "Leo Bicknell" wrote: > >Ther

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-02 Thread Owen DeLong
Is it, or is it the norm because it is the result of a lack of facilities in those locations? Show me even one area where there is a rich fiber infrastructure available on an equal footing to multiple competitors to provide L3 services and there are no L3 providers offering service to those res

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-02 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Date: Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 07:40:50AM +0200 Quoting Mark Tinka (mark.ti...@seacom.mu): > On Thursday, July 31, 2014 02:01:28 PM Måns Nilsson wrote: > > > It is better, both for the customer and the provider. > > If the provider is able t

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-02 Thread Leo Bicknell
There are plenty of cities with zero ISP's interested in serving them today, I can't argue that point. However I believe the single largest reason why that is true is that the ISP today has to bear the capital cost of building out the physical plant to serve the customers. 15-20 year ROI's don

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-02 Thread Scott Helms
Happens all the time, which is why I asked Leo about that scenario. There are large swarths of the US and even more in Canada where that's the norm. On Aug 2, 2014 1:29 PM, "Owen DeLong" wrote: > Such a case is unlikely. > > On Aug 1, 2014, at 13:32, Scott Helms wrote: > > >> >> I can never see

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-02 Thread Vlade Ristevski
Thanks , makes sense. I was looking on peeringdb.com for some locations nearby but they're all 20+ miles . However, there is a Telx a block from my house that I walk past everyday. Maybe a I can string along a 10G connection to my basement office :) On 8/2/2014 9:47 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote:

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-02 Thread Owen DeLong
I thought JRA was asking about the upstream cost. Owen > On Aug 2, 2014, at 0:43, Mark Tinka 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,

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-02 Thread Owen DeLong
I don't pretend to be the original person with this idea. But I would very much like to see it implemented. > On Aug 1, 2014, at 13:24, Joly MacFie wrote: > > >> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> MHO, experience has taught us that the lines provider (or as I >> prefer to

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-02 Thread Owen DeLong
> Municipalities can be different. It’s possible to write into law that > they can offer L1 and L2 services, but never anything higher. There’s > also a built in disincentive to risk tax dollars more speculative, but > possibly more profitable ventures. Sure, a muni could offer that and be li

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-02 Thread Owen DeLong
Such a case is unlikely. On Aug 1, 2014, at 13:32, Scott Helms wrote: >> >> >> I can never see a case where letting them play at Layer 3 or above helps. >> That’s bad news, stay away. But I think some well crafted L2 services >> could actually _expand_ consumer choice. I mean running a dark

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-02 Thread Owen DeLong
That's why I want legislation requiring the operator to be one or the other and not both. Most L1 gets built with tax dollars or subsidies anyway. Owen > On Aug 2, 2014, at 0:34, Mark Tinka wrote: > >> On Friday, August 01, 2014 04:44:29 PM Owen DeLong wrote: >> >> Even when mandated to

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-02 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Aug 2, 2014, at 8:10 AM, Vlade Ristevski wrote: > I might be misunderstanding this, but are you guys saying 10G Internet access > to a tier 1 costs around $6,000 a month? I ask because I run a network for a > small college and the best price I could get on 1Gbps Internet is about > $5,500

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-02 Thread Vlade Ristevski
I might be misunderstanding this, but are you guys saying 10G Internet access to a tier 1 costs around $6,000 a month? I ask because I run a network for a small college and the best price I could get on 1Gbps Internet is about $5,500 a month with the fiber loop included which itself costs $2000

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-02 Thread Mark Tinka
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 prici

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On Friday, August 01, 2014 06:34:00 PM Owen DeLong wrote: > Today, somewhere around $6,000 or more depending on > provider, location, etc. > > That’s with IP transit included. With IP Transit included, perhaps. But 10Gbps ports are not expensive these days. Depends on whether you selling 10Gbp

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On Friday, August 01, 2014 04:44:29 PM Owen DeLong wrote: > Even when mandated to unbundle at a reasonable cost, > often other games are played (trouble ticket for service > billed by lines provider resolved in a day, trouble > ticket for service on unbundled element resolved in 14 > days, etc.).

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-01 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Aug 1, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Scott Helms wrote: > Even in those cases where there isn't a layer 3 operator nor a chance for a > viable resale of layer 1/2 services. I have a very hard time believing that if a city (no matter what size) had a FTTH deployment, sold on a non-discriminatory basis

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-01 Thread Scott Helms
> > > > I can never see a case where letting them play at Layer 3 or above helps. > That’s bad news, stay away. But I think some well crafted L2 services > could actually _expand_ consumer choice. I mean running a dark fiber > GigE to supply voice only makes no sense, but a 10M channel on a GPON

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-01 Thread Joly MacFie
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > MHO, experience has taught us that the lines provider (or as I > prefer to call them, the Layer 1 infrastructure provider) must be > prohibited from playing at the higher layers > A few years back Fred Goldstein proposed defining a Layer 1 i

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-01 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Aug 1, 2014, at 9:44 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > If you want examples of how well the model you propose tends to > work, look no further than the incredible problematic nature of MCI’s > attempt to offer local phone service over Pacific Bell/SBC/AT&T > circuits. [snip] > IMHO, experience has t

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
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? On August 1, 2014 12:34:00 PM EDT, Owen DeLong w

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-01 Thread Owen DeLong
Today, somewhere around $6,000 or more depending on provider, location, etc. That’s with IP transit included. Owen On Aug 1, 2014, at 9:09 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > What is the MRC of a 10GE port? > > On August 1, 2014 1:40:50 AM EDT, Mark Tinka wrote: >> On Thursday, July 31, 2014 02:01:28

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
What is the MRC of a 10GE port? On August 1, 2014 1:40:50 AM EDT, Mark Tinka wrote: >On Thursday, July 31, 2014 02:01:28 PM Måns Nilsson wrote: > >> It is better, both for the customer and the provider. > >If the provider is able to deliver 1Gbps to every home >(either on copper or fibre) with l

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-01 Thread Owen DeLong
As I said, for an example of just how well such an environment works, one need look no further than what happened when MCI attempted to use Pacific Bell/SBC/AT&T unbundled copper pairs to provide local telephone service. In reality, this turns out to be horrible for the customer, unpleasant at b

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-01 Thread Corey Touchet
Not really, the law can say must provide standards compliant access for interconnections with a agreed upon base set of features it must support. Any provider that wants something extra can negotiate the reasonable costs of implementation. On 8/1/14, 8:44 AM, "Owen DeLong" wrote: > >On Aug 1

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-01 Thread Owen DeLong
On Aug 1, 2014, at 12:08 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: > On Friday, August 01, 2014 08:54:07 AM mcfbbqroast . wrote: > >> This would be my humble suggestion: >> >> - lines provider runs fibre pair from each home to co. By >> default the lines provider installs a simple consumer >> terminal, with gigab

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-01 Thread John Osmon
Anyone know how to summarize this end game well enough for state/federal legislators? Or raise enough money and direction to provide sufficient "lobbying?" Wasn't KC asking for a dept of the Internet at the NANOG 20 in DC? On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 09:44:28AM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote: > On Friday,

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-01 Thread Mark Tinka
On Friday, August 01, 2014 09:30:57 AM mcfbbqroast . wrote: > I think this is a sector the > government would do well in. Unlike being an actual ISP > there's no ambiguity (oversubscription, customer > service, etc). Just provide a gigabit line with no > congestion and solid uptime, or a fibre pai

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-01 Thread mcfbbqroast .
Govt controlled, please. We have tried both in NZ. Before telecom provided internet and ran lines. They were equally shit at both and apparently there were many issues for other ISPs using the lines. Now Chorus owns the and they insist that $40+/mo for wholesale DSL is fair. I think this is a se

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-08-01 Thread Mark Tinka
On Friday, August 01, 2014 08:54:07 AM mcfbbqroast . wrote: > This would be my humble suggestion: > > - lines provider runs fibre pair from each home to co. By > default the lines provider installs a simple consumer > terminal, with gigabit Ethernet outputs and POTS. > > - lines provider provide

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-31 Thread mcfbbqroast .
This would be my humble suggestion: - lines provider runs fibre pair from each home to co. By default the lines provider installs a simple consumer terminal, with gigabit Ethernet outputs and POTS. - lines provider provides a reasonably oversubscribed service to soft hand over to ISPs (think 96 G

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-31 Thread Mark Tinka
On Thursday, July 31, 2014 02:01:28 PM Måns Nilsson wrote: > It is better, both for the customer and the provider. If the provider is able to deliver 1Gbps to every home (either on copper or fibre) with little to no uplink oversubscription (think 44x customer-facing Gig-E ports + 4x 10Gbps upl

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-31 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Date: Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 06:56:40PM -0500 Quoting Leo Bicknell (bickn...@ufp.org): > > On Jul 30, 2014, at 1:47 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > Symmetrical would be tough to do unless you're doing Active- > > E. > > I&#x

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-30 Thread Mark Tinka
On Thursday, July 31, 2014 01:56:40 AM Leo Bicknell wrote: > I'm an outlier in my thinking, but I believe the best > world would be where the muni offered L1 fiber, and > leased access to it on a non-discrimatory basis. That > would necessitate an Active-E solution since L1 would > not have thing

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-30 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Jul 30, 2014, at 1:47 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: > Symmetrical would be tough to do unless you're doing Active- > E. I'm an outlier in my thinking, but I believe the best world would be where the muni offered L1 fiber, and leased access to it on a non-discrimatory basis. That would necessitate

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-29 Thread Mark Tinka
On Monday, July 21, 2014 07:28:22 PM Scott Helms wrote: > I'll be watching to see how well this roll out goes. If > they didn't re-engineer their splits (or plan for > symmetrical from the beginning) they could run into some > problems because the total speed on a GPON port is > asymmetrical, abo

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-25 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:03 PM, William Allen Simpson wrote: > On 7/21/14 3:50 PM, William Herrin wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Blake Dunlap wrote: >>> My power is pretty much always on, my water is pretty much always on >>> and safe, my sewer system works, etc etc... >> >> Mine isn

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-25 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 7/21/14 3:50 PM, William Herrin wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Blake Dunlap wrote: My power is pretty much always on, my water is pretty much always on and safe, my sewer system works, etc etc... Mine isn't. I lost power for a three days solid last year, I've suffered 3 sanitary s

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread list
On 07/23/2014 06:51 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 07/23/2014 06:05 PM, Scott Helms wrote: >> The problem is marketing/spin/lobbying is both cheaper and more effective >> in most scenarios. > > No, the problem is that those companies don't define "the problem" the > same way that we do. :) +1 I wou

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/23/2014 06:05 PM, Scott Helms wrote: The problem is marketing/spin/lobbying is both cheaper and more effective in most scenarios. No, the problem is that those companies don't define "the problem" the same way that we do. :) Doug

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread Scott Helms
The problem is marketing/spin/lobbying is both cheaper and more effective in most scenarios. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Rich Kula

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread John Osmon
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 09:55:39AM -0500, Steven Saner wrote: [...] > Now, it is tempting to suggest that the electric cooperative should take > on the project. I've seen that exact scenario happen in rural New Mexico. The Co-op members wanted dial-up access, and couldn't get it. They asked the

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 7/23/2014 10:24 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Funny story. There are a huge number of independent telcos in Iowa. The reason: early on, farmers discovered that you could turn pairs of barbed wired strands into party lines. Things developed from there. In California in the 1960s Pacific had tar

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 03:50:40PM -0500, Blake Hudson wrote: > I would love to see the Verizon blog response on that... I would love to see Verizon invest the resources (both financial and personnel) that are being deployed to update their blog, lobby Congress, lobby the FCC, astroturf, issue pre

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread Jared Mauch
On Jul 23, 2014, at 4:33 PM, William Herrin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Shawn Morris wrote: >> What responsibility does Verizon have to maintain this ratio? > > Anybody else think peering ratios miss the point? Netflix is > theoretically in a position to have their app generate e

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread Blake Hudson
William Herrin wrote the following on 7/23/2014 3:33 PM: On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Shawn Morris wrote: What responsibility does Verizon have to maintain this ratio? Anybody else think peering ratios miss the point? Netflix is theoretically in a position to have their app generate empty

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Shawn Morris wrote: > What responsibility does Verizon have to maintain this ratio? Anybody else think peering ratios miss the point? Netflix is theoretically in a position to have their app generate empty back-traffic at a rate that maintains any necessary peerin

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread Shawn Morris
What responsibility does Verizon have to maintain this ratio? Are they being faithful to the agreement when they make no effort to compete in the wholesale market? What content players buy transit from Verizon to reach networks other than Verizon's? On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 03:25:49PM -0600,

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 7/23/14 5:30 AM, Scott Helms wrote: The people involved in the bond arrangements almost invariably see having the city the layer 3 provider as more reliable path to getting repaid than an open system. I assumed this was true, that bonds with the revenue stream based upon rights-of-way lease

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread Miles Fidelman
Steven Saner wrote: In the US, in midwest rural areas at least, you see do quite a few cooperatives in the realm of things like power distribution. It isn't quite the same as neighbors getting together to build a network, but it has some of the same elements. I live outside of the city and I am a

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread William Herrin
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Jay Ashworth wrote: >> IIRC, going from 1pr to 3pr raised my build cost about 12ish %, going to >> 6pr would have been another 12%, cause you have term equipment costs to >> think about in addition to the fiber cost, which is delta. 25% of a lot of money is a lot more money.

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread Steven Saner
On 07/23/2014 07:58 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Scott Helms wrote: > >> for a more open approach. The people involved in the bond arrangements >> almost invariably see having the city the layer 3 provider as more >> reliable >> path to getting repaid than an open system.

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: "Doug Barton" I was planning AE, and to deploy 3 pair per drop, except on multiunit building, where my overbuild ratio would be between 1.6 and 1.2 or so. Heh, great minds think alike, as I was contemplating the s

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Doug Barton" > > I was planning AE, and to deploy 3 pair per drop, except on multiunit > > building, where my overbuild ratio would be between 1.6 and 1.2 or > > so. > > Heh, great minds think alike, as I was contemplating the same issue that > Keenan raised

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread Scott Helms
Mikael, Fiber length is least representative measure of work as it relates to putting fiber in the ground. Now, its impressive that they did anything but if a professional crew took more than a couple of months to do this they'd be out of a job. I 'd be much more impressed by a lower distance c

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Scott Helms wrote: They are also running into serious problems trying to scale and while getting 400 homes wired up is laudable, having it take more than two years is not impressive at all. I am impressed by it. 200km of fiber is not easy to do. -- Mikael Abrahamssone

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread Scott Helms
Mikael, Its an interesting idea and I'd like to see some communities try it here. Having said that, I anticipate that B4RN style networks will run into some substantial maintenance and reliability issues over time. I love the quote in the economist from the farmer's wife who learned (assuming au

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Scott Helms wrote: for a more open approach. The people involved in the bond arrangements almost invariably see having the city the layer 3 provider as more reliable path to getting repaid than an open system. Another model is the one described for instance in https://ww

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread Scott Helms
That's not an excuse, its simply the political reality here in the US. There is a narrow place band on the size scale for a municipality where its politically acceptable in most places AND there is a true gap in coverage. In nearly all of the larger areas, though there are some exceptions, there

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-22 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/22/2014 06:36 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: "Keenan Tims" If we assume that a residential deployment pulls one strand (or perhaps a pair) to each prem, similar to current practice for POTS, there's a resource allocation problem if I want to buy TV services

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-22 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Keenan Tims" > If we assume that a residential deployment pulls one strand (or perhaps > a pair) to each prem, similar to current practice for POTS, there's a > resource allocation problem if I want to buy TV services from provider > A and Internet services f

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-22 Thread Keenan Tims
To take this in a slightly different direction, as long as we're looking for pies in the sky, has anyone considered the "bundling" problem? If we assume that a residential deployment pulls one strand (or perhaps a pair) to each prem, similar to current practice for POTS, there's a resource allocat

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-22 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > True, but if your end-to-end loop tester sees a good path, you > can be pretty sure that the pair is clean end-to-end. You'd be surprised. I recently dealt with a gentleman who built his campus fiber plant expecting to configure end-to-end fib

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-22 Thread Owen DeLong
True, but if your end-to-end loop tester sees a good path, you can be pretty sure that the pair is clean end-to-end. Owen On Jul 22, 2014, at 14:07 , Scott Helms wrote: > My experience is completely opposite though admittedly this may be because > of the specific projects and cities I've worke

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-22 Thread Ray Soucy
Sometimes the beauty of having government involved in infrastructure is that you don't need to justify a 3 year ROI. Creation of the Transcontinental Railroad Rural Electrification Building of the Interstate Highway System Wall ST may have everyone focused on short term gains, but when it comes t

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-22 Thread Scott Helms
I'll be there when I see it can be done practically in the US. I agree with you from a philosophical standpoint, but I don't see it being there yet. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms

Re: The case(s) for, and against, preemption (was Re: Muni Fiber and Politics)

2014-07-22 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 7/22/14 1:55 PM, Ray Soucy wrote: You're over-thinking it. Use the power company as a model and you'll close to the right path. Well, no, but thanks for your thoughts. Portland vs. Cumberland County as respective hypothetical bonding and regulating authorities, not {Bangor Hydro|Florida P

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