I would put it differently. I believe that the entity (muni, county, state, special district, or whatever) should be required to make dark fiber patches available.
I believe they should be allowed to optionally provide L2 enabled services of various forms. I believe that they should be prohibited from engaging in L3+ services. I believe they should be required to offer more than a MMR type facility in order to enable cost-effective utilization by smaller providers. There are a number of ways this can be accomplished without necessarily requiring the muni to get into anything complicated. Owen On Jan 29, 2013, at 6:51 PM, Leo Bicknell <[email protected]> wrote: > In a message written on Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:54:26PM -0500, Jay Ashworth > wrote: >> Hmmm. I tend to be a Layer-2-available guy, cause I think it lets smaller >> players play. Does your position (likely more deeply thought out than >> mine) permit Layer 2 with Muni ONT and Ethernet handoff, as long as clients >> are *also* permitted to get a Layer 1 patch to a provider in the fashion you >> suggest? > > No, and there's good reason why, I'm about to write a response to Owen > that will also expand on why. > > There are a number of issues with the muni running the ONT: > > - Muni now has to have a different level of techs and truck rolls. > - The Muni MMR now is much more complex, requiring power (including > backup generators, etc) and likely 24x7 staff as a result. > - The muni-ont will limit users to the technologies the ONT supports. > If you want to spin up 96x10GE WDM your 1G ONT won't allow it. > - The optic cost is not significantly different if the muni buys them > and provides lit L2, or if the service/provider user provides them. > > The muni should sell L1 patches to anyone in the MMR. Note, this > _includes_ two on-net buildings. So if your work and home are connected > to the same muni-MMR you could order a patch from one to the other. > It may now be max ~20km, so you'll need longer reach optics, but if you > want to stand up 96x10GE WDM you're good to go. > > -- > Leo Bicknell - [email protected] - CCIE 3440 > PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
