Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Sholes, Joshua
How do you get around the problem of natural monopolies, then? Or should we be moving to a world where, say, a dozen or more separate companies are all running fiber or coax on the poles on my street in an effort to get to my house? IMHO, the only way to get real competition on the last mile is

RE: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Naslund, Steve
How do you get around the problem of natural monopolies, then? Or should we be moving to a world where, say, a dozen or more separate companies are all running fiber or coax on the poles on my street in an effort to get to my house? We already did it. The Telecommunications Act allows

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Joe Greco
How do you get around the problem of natural monopolies, then? Or should we be moving to a world where, say, a dozen or more separate companies are all running fiber or coax on the poles on my street in an effort to get to my house? IMHO, the only way to get real competition on the last

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Sholes, Joshua
http://www.newnetworks.com/ShortSCANDALSummary.htm This boooklet is now maybe ~5-10 years old so it doesn't reflect more recent developments. We *let* the monopolies (er, duopolies in some cases) get away with the regulatory and legislative manipulation that led to the current outcome, That's

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Mark Tinka
On Friday, March 21, 2014 04:25:09 PM Naslund, Steve wrote: Nice idea, too bad no one can make any money on building infrastructure but not selling the services on top of it. Remember Global Crossing? You are asking one company to put up all the capital expense and then try to recover it

100GBASE-SR10 interwork with 10GBASE-SR

2014-03-21 Thread Lee, Steven (Network Consulting Malaysia)
Hi all, is there anyone who has experience the interworking 100GBASE-SR10 with 10GBASE-SR over 24-fiber ribbon cables terminated with MPO/MTP-24 connectors? If yes, any implementation consideration I should be aware? Regards, Steven Lee

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Naslund, Steve snasl...@medline.com wrote: Nice idea, too bad no one can make any money on building infrastructure but not selling the services on top of it. Remember Global Crossing? You are asking one company to put up all the capital expense and then try

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Bob Evans
Well, don't forget the labor, taxes, business licenses fees, county taxes on chairs, Obama care, accountants and time required. Bob Evans CTO Bob Evans CTO Do you need IPv4 space to lease, space you can use until IPv6 is the standard? On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Naslund, Steve

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 02:30:45PM +, Sholes, Joshua wrote: http://www.newnetworks.com/ShortSCANDALSummary.htm This boooklet is now maybe ~5-10 years old so it doesn't reflect more recent developments. We *let* the monopolies (er, duopolies in some cases) get away with the regulatory

RE: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Naslund, Steve
What do you mean by average monthly bill? That is the issue here. The average monthly bill includes the services you are getting. In the Chicago area a fiber optic access circuit unbundled from the imcumbent carrier to a competitive carrier is something like $10 a month or so. How could you

RE: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Naslund, Steve
Well, we were originally talking about regulation in the US as discussed by Level 3 in the subject article, but we can get into the international space if you like. So, as far as the government or Wall Street funding the build out of the commercial Internet, that is not what happened. I was

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Naslund, Steve snasl...@medline.com wrote: What do you mean by average monthly bill? What is the average monthly (non-subsidized) access cost that your friends and family pay each month? -Jim P.

RE: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Naslund, Steve
We don't know because the service provider rolls that cost up along with the services they sell. That is my point. They are able to spread the costs out based on the profitable services they sell. If they were not able to sell us services I am not sure they could afford to provide that

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Mark Tinka
On Friday, March 21, 2014 05:59:54 PM Naslund, Steve wrote: So, as far as the government or Wall Street funding the build out of the commercial Internet, that is not what happened. Lots of terrestrial and submarine optical fibre was built in the late 90's, and much of it has either gone

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Keegan Holley
On Mar 21, 2014, at 12:13 PM, Naslund, Steve snasl...@medline.com wrote: We don't know because the service provider rolls that cost up along with the services they sell. That is my point. They are able to spread the costs out based on the profitable services they sell. If they were not

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Keegan Holley
How come no one ever asks if competition is required? On Mar 20, 2014, at 11:47 PM, David Miller dmil...@tiggee.com wrote: Unless I am reading the tea leaves wrong competition will require regulation. Original message From: Mike. the.li...@mgm51.com Date:

Weekly Routing Table Report

2014-03-21 Thread Routing Analysis Role Account
This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Internet Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan. The posting is sent to APOPS, NANOG, AfNOG, AusNOG, SANOG, PacNOG, LacNOG, TRNOG, CaribNOG and the RIPE Routing Working Group. Daily listings are sent to

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Adrian
On Friday 21 March 2014 09:13:28 Naslund, Steve wrote: ... In fact, having been a service provider I can tell you that I paid the LEC about $4 a month for a copper pair to your house to sell DSL service at around ten times that cost. I am sure the LEC was not making money at the $4 a month

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Jared Mauch
On Mar 21, 2014, at 2:08 PM, Keegan Holley no.s...@comcast.net wrote: How come no one ever asks if competition is required? I think the issue here is there is competition, but those you are seen as competing with are in a different strata providing the same service. eg: Cellular data

Re: US to relinquish control of Internet

2014-03-21 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On a related note, another great way to keep track of new ICANN registry agreements is the gTLD Tech mailing list: https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/gtld-tech ...and the gTLD Notification list:

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Joe Greco
We don't know because the service provider rolls that cost up along with th= e services they sell. That is my point. They are able to spread the costs= out based on the profitable services they sell. Okay. If they were not able to = sell us services I am not sure they could afford to

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Jared Mauch
On Mar 21, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net wrote: Why wouldn't you instead charge for the build out as a NRC and then charge for maintenance as a MRC? I for one would be willing to bear a high NRC start-up cost for someone building fiber to my home. Not everyone would make

Re: competition (was: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica)

2014-03-21 Thread Keegan Holley
On Mar 21, 2014, at 2:21 PM, Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net wrote: On Mar 21, 2014, at 2:08 PM, Keegan Holley no.s...@comcast.net wrote: How come no one ever asks if competition is required? I think the issue here is there is competition, but those you are seen as competing with

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Mar 21, 2014, at 12:13 , Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net wrote: On Mar 21, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net wrote: Why wouldn't you instead charge for the build out as a NRC and then charge for maintenance as a MRC? I for one would be willing to bear a high NRC

Re: competition (was: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica)

2014-03-21 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Keegan Holley no.s...@comcast.net wrote: Again why is the market so important? It just fascinates me that no one questions it. Howdy, The impact of competition was extensively questioned and researched with respect to U.S. Government contracting rules in the

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Joe Greco
On Mar 21, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net wrote: Why wouldn't you instead charge for the build out as a NRC and then = charge=20 for maintenance as a MRC? I for one would be willing to bear a high NRC start-up cost for someone = building fiber to my home. Not everyone

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Jared Mauch
On Mar 21, 2014, at 12:22 PM, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net wrote: On Mar 21, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net wrote: Why wouldn't you instead charge for the build out as a NRC and then = charge=20 for maintenance as a MRC? I for one would be willing to bear a high NRC

Re: competition (was: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica)

2014-03-21 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
The impact of competition was extensively questioned and researched with respect to U.S. Government contracting rules in the early '80s. This led to the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984. Since then there's been the routine grumble about the lowest quality bidder and the periodic scandal

BGP Update Report

2014-03-21 Thread cidr-report
BGP Update Report Interval: 13-Mar-14 -to- 20-Mar-14 (7 days) Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS131072 TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS Rank ASNUpds % Upds/PfxAS-Name 1 - AS27947 46087 1.8% 71.3 -- Telconet S.A 2 - AS840241741 1.6% 21.8 --

The Cidr Report

2014-03-21 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Mar 21 21:13:54 2014 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of AS2.0 router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org/2.0 for a current version of this report. Recent Table History

Re: 100GBASE-SR10 interwork with 10GBASE-SR

2014-03-21 Thread Chad Lamb
Steven, In general, there isn't much to worry about optically when interfacing 100GBASE-SR10 and 10GBASE-SR. If you are using CFP transceivers or CXP transceivers for the 100GBASE-SR10, your mileage may vary. For example, the Avago CXP AFBR-83PDZ has a transmit power range of -7.6dBm to

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/21/2014 9:13 AM, Sholes, Joshua wrote: How do you get around the problem of natural monopolies, then? My strongly held belief is that if the natural monopoly* becomes oppressive somebody in their garage will find another way, and absent regulation and force of arms available to the

RE: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Eric Wieling
Make the regulation and force of arms be as targeted as reasonable. In the case of telecommunications as targeted as reasonable means the last mile or, more correctly, the local loop.I advocate stringent ongoing oversight and regulation of the local loop and very little regulation for