I received this email for assistance from Nick Voth, owner of Easy Street today. I'm sure there are many wisps who also offer DSL and may be affected and interested in what the future holds for you. So I'm passing this along for your benefit and I've included Nick Voth's email address for your convenience if you want to contact him directly.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Qwest's DSL plans will make ISP's obsolete Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:43:20 -0600 From: Nick Voth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Nick Voth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello folks, I'm an owner of an Internet Service Provider in Denver, Colorado. If you haven't heard about the new Qwest "Fiber to the Node" product, you need to pay attention to this message and pass it along to others inside your company. Qwest is currently rolling out a new network that will become their primary way of delivering DSL to end users. It is a pure Ethernet based product and there is no mechanism yet to allow third party ISP's, (other than MSN), to provide service. We are already losing customers to it in Denver and there's no end in sight. It's a stated goal to make this product eventually replace the ATM based systems that we all know and enjoy. If nothing changes to allow other Internet providers to utilize the network, we will all be out of the DSL business or be forced to resell Qwest.net service. Here are the main problems we see as a third party ISP with losing control over the customer's data: - No control over IP space at all - No IP routing control - No Quality of Service for services like VPN or VoIP - No ability to monitor usage for bandwidth abuse, etc. - No ability to monitor traffic for viruses, attacks, etc. - No troubleshooting capabilities for network issues - No troubleshooting of connection troubles (authentication, etc.) - No control over rDNS (Reverse DNS for IP addresses) - No customer choice! (This will definitely drive customers to Comcast) - No margins for ISP's after circuit and Qwest.net fees (in reseller model) - Qwest.net not invisible even in wholesale environment because of IP's In short, this product will be a catastrophe to all third party ISP's because it will eventually put us out of business. I urge you to contact your Qwest representatives as soon as possible and make it clear to them how important this is. Here is a list of the most important players, (as far as I can tell): Larry Canavan (not in a position to help, but a really nice guy) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Molly Clemen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 612-664-4501 Office 612-807-7645 - Cell Matt Rotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] I understand these are the current product managers: Travis Leo 303-308-5284 Frank Simonson 303-308-5040 Also, make sure to participate in any conference call to ISP's that may be coming up. If we don't make our voices heard, Qwest will make their decisions without us. Sincerely, -Nick Voth ----------------------------- Nick Voth President E Street Communications http://www.estreet.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 303-584-0640 x 1001 ----------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
