Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-04 Thread Masataka Ohta
Scott Helms wrote: Is it more expensive to home-run every home than to put splitters in the neighborhood? Yes. Is it enough more expensive that the tradeoffs cannot be overcome? I remain unconvinced. This completely depends on the area and the goals of the network. In most cases for muni

WhoisGuard

2013-02-04 Thread Joshua William Klubi
Is there any person from WhoisGuard . com on this group. or any one can help me with an effective contact, all mails to their ' supp...@whoisguard.com' is not been acknowledged or answered. Joshua

Global caches

2013-02-04 Thread Kyle Camilleri
Dear Nanog Community, Some CDN providers such as Akamai and Google (often called Global Google Cache) are offering caches to ISPs. It is very convenient for small ISPs to alleviate bandwidth towards the provider, but also the CDN provider benefits by putting source of data closer to the user

Re: Global caches

2013-02-04 Thread Dan White
On 02/04/13 14:03 +, Kyle Camilleri wrote: Some CDN providers such as Akamai and Google (often called Global Google Cache) are offering caches to ISPs. It is very convenient for small ISPs to alleviate bandwidth towards the provider, but also the CDN provider benefits by putting source of

Re: Global caches

2013-02-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 04, 2013, at 09:03 , Kyle Camilleri kyle.camill...@melitaplc.com wrote: Some CDN providers such as Akamai and Google (often called Global Google Cache) are offering caches to ISPs. It is very convenient for small ISPs to alleviate bandwidth towards the provider, but also the CDN

Re: Global caches

2013-02-04 Thread Dan White
On 02/04/13 08:33 -0600, Dan White wrote: On 02/04/13 14:03 +, Kyle Camilleri wrote: Some CDN providers such as Akamai and Google (often called Global Google Cache) are offering caches to ISPs. It is very convenient for small ISPs to alleviate bandwidth towards the provider, but also the

Re: Global caches

2013-02-04 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Mon Feb 04, 2013 at 02:03:54PM +, Kyle Camilleri wrote: Does anybody know of any other CDN providers that offer similar caches? Most CDN providers also provide free access to super node caches at major datacentres and peering points - depending on where you are located, which datacentres

Re: Global caches

2013-02-04 Thread Jeff Richmond
While I would agree with that, having peering helps but certainly doesn't replace a localized CDN. Certainly better than nothing though. It also of course depends on the size of your network. If you are paying to carry that traffic (leased backhaul, etc.) from your peering point to your

Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks?

2013-02-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com Here is the architecture document: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/36936.pdf Nice get; that will make very interesting reading today. Thanks. -- jra --

Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

2013-02-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Jason Baugher ja...@thebaughers.com What we've seen is that the RBOC typically has a lot of crap copper in the ground, in a lot of cases air-core (pre gel-fill) that hasn't held up well. With the popularity of DSL, they ran out of good pairs to use. As they

Re: Global caches

2013-02-04 Thread fredrik danerklint
Does anybody know of any other CDN providers that offer similar caches? Yes. The Last Mile Cache. http://tlmc.fredan.se It's an completely open solution for everybody, both the ISP (Internet Service Provider) and CSP (Content Service Provider). -- //fredan

Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks?

2013-02-04 Thread Masataka Ohta
Scott Helms wrote: Here is the architecture document: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/36936.pdf The document, seemingly, does not address drop cable cost difference. It does not address L1 unbundling with WDM-PON,

Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks?

2013-02-04 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 09:53:50PM -0600, Frank Bulk wrote: Sure, Verizon has been able to get their cost per home passed down to $700 To be fair, Verizon has chosen to build their FIOS network in many expensive to build locations, because that's where they believe there to

2013.02.04 NANOG57 day 1 morning session notes posted

2013-02-04 Thread Matthew Petach
I jotted down some notes from this morning's session in case people are curious; they should be up visible at http://kestrel3.netflight.com/2013.02.04-day1-morning-session.txt apache's kinda flakey on the box; if it stops responding, ping me and I'll bounce the server. ^_^; Thanks! Matt

Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks?

2013-02-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Leo Bicknell bickn...@ufp.org Remember that Google cherry-picked which city it would serve, so it was able to identify location that is likely less challenging and expensive to serve than the average. A lot of Google's Kansas City build will not be buried

Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks?

2013-02-04 Thread Matthew Petach
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Leo Bicknell bickn...@ufp.org wrote: True, but I think it means we've bound the problem. It appears to take $1400-$4500 to deploy fiber to the home in urban and suburban areas, depending on all the fun local factors that effect costs. *sigh* I'd gladly pay

Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks?

2013-02-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Matthew Petach mpet...@netflight.com On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Leo Bicknell bickn...@ufp.org wrote: True, but I think it means we've bound the problem. It appears to take $1400-$4500 to deploy fiber to the home in urban and suburban areas,

Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks?

2013-02-04 Thread Matthew Petach
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Matthew Petach mpet...@netflight.com On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Leo Bicknell bickn...@ufp.org wrote: True, but I think it means we've bound the problem. It appears to take

RE: Global caches

2013-02-04 Thread Kyle Camilleri
Hi Alex, We already have Google Cache although we don't peer with them directly. As said earlier, what I'm after is to cache content to provide better performance to our customers and alleviating some bandwidth towards provider. Taking an example of Global Google Cache, they provide and manage

Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

2013-02-04 Thread Fletcher Kittredge
Scott; I apologize. You could very well sincerely not realize you are wrong. Obviously, erroneous thinking is not the same as making things up. However, it is not good that bad information is out there and it should be corrected.First you refer to them as dry copper or dry pair which has

Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

2013-02-04 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 13-02-04 14:57, Fletcher Kittredge wrote: of the reason you have had difficulty ordering them. The proper term is Unbundled Network Elements(UNE) copper loops. The Bell Canada tariff on ADSL acess (5410) uses the following terminology: (GAS = wholesale DSL service operated by incumbent

Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

2013-02-04 Thread Fletcher Kittredge
Jean-Francois; The only regulatory regime I am familiar with is the US and the original poster specifically specified the US regime. In the US, only CLECs have the right to order UNEs. Many ISPs became CLECs for that reason. In the states in which we operate, becoming a CLEC is a minimal

Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

2013-02-04 Thread Scott Helms
Frank, I certainly agree that fiber plant is in general easier than copper plant to maintain. My main concern is that in this case Jay is considering allowing not only different vendors but different technologies on the same fiber plant. That, in a small system without a ton of technical

Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-02-04 Thread Scott Helms
Frank, One thing to keep in mind is that I don't believe its possible to get a contract with the bulk of the content owners in a wholesale scenario. This would be a different kind of situation than I've seen attempted in the past but in general the content guys get very picky about how video

Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

2013-02-04 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 13-02-04 15:46, Scott Helms wrote: I certainly agree that fiber plant is in general easier than copper plant to maintain. My main concern is that in this case Jay is considering allowing not only different vendors but different technologies on the same fiber plant. If you are strictly

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-04 Thread Scott Helms
Owen, I'm trimming this for my own sanity if I snip out something important please let me know. So long as you recognize that it's on a pair-by-pair basis end-to-end and not expecting any mixing/sharing/etc. by the L1 infrastructure provider, yes. OK good, now we're speaking on the same

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-04 Thread Scott Helms
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Masataka Ohta mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp wrote: Scott Helms wrote: Is it more expensive to home-run every home than to put splitters in the neighborhood? Yes. Is it enough more expensive that the tradeoffs cannot be overcome? I remain unconvinced.

Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks?

2013-02-04 Thread Scott Helms
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Masataka Ohta mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp wrote: Scott Helms wrote: Here is the architecture document: http://static.**googleusercontent.com/**external_content/untrusted_**

Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-02-04 Thread Brandon Ross
On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Scott Helms wrote: One thing to keep in mind is that I don't believe its possible to get a contract with the bulk of the content owners in a wholesale scenario. You do really need to read the thread before you post. I already pointed out that there are several companies

Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks?

2013-02-04 Thread Scott Helms
Rural deployments present an entirely different problem of geography. I suspect the dark fiber model I advocate for is appropriate for 80% of the population from large cities to small towns; but for the 20% in truely rural areas it doesn't work and there is no cheap option as far as I can

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-04 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 13-02-04 16:04, Scott Helms wrote: Subscribers don't care if the hand off is at layer 1 or layer 2 so this is moot as well. This is where one has to be carefull. The wholesale scenario in Canada leaves indepdendant ISPs having to explain to their customers that they can't fix certain

Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

2013-02-04 Thread Scott Helms
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Fletcher Kittredge fkitt...@gwi.net wrote: Scott; I apologize. You could very well sincerely not realize you are wrong. Obviously, erroneous thinking is not the same as making things up. Thanks, I think ;) I looked back and what I had written and I will

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Jean-Francois Mezei jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca Subscribers don't care if the hand off is at layer 1 or layer 2 so this is moot as well. This is where one has to be carefull. The wholesale scenario in Canada leaves indepdendant ISPs having to explain to

Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

2013-02-04 Thread Scott Helms
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca wrote: On 13-02-04 15:46, Scott Helms wrote: I certainly agree that fiber plant is in general easier than copper plant to maintain. My main concern is that in this case Jay is considering allowing not only

Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-02-04 Thread Scott Helms
Brandon, On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Brandon Ross br...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Scott Helms wrote: One thing to keep in mind is that I don't believe its possible to get a contract with the bulk of the content owners in a wholesale scenario. You do really need to read

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-04 Thread Scott Helms
Exactly! On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca wrote: On 13-02-04 16:04, Scott Helms wrote: Subscribers don't care if the hand off is at layer 1 or layer 2 so this is moot as well. This is where one has to be carefull. The wholesale scenario

Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-02-04 Thread Brandon Ross
On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Scott Helms wrote: On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Brandon Ross br...@pobox.com wrote: There are tons and tons and tons of organizations that will sell the operator of a network content to sell to that operator's subscribers directly. Most well known is the cable coop, who

Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-02-04 Thread Scott Helms
How is that different from what the aggregators that I've already pointed out are doing? Why does anyone need to resell anything, anyway, what we are talking about are service providers connected to this muni fiber network being able to deliver triple play to their subs. Its not, that was

Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-02-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com There are tons and tons and tons of organizations that will sell the operator of a network content to sell to that operator's subscribers directly. Most well known is the cable coop, who only exists to do just that. The problem

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-04 Thread Masataka Ohta
Jean-Francois Mezei wrote: This is where one has to be carefull. The wholesale scenario in Canada leaves indepdendant ISPs having to explain to their customers that they can't fix certain problems and that they must call the telco/cableco to get it fixed. (in the case of a certain cable

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Masataka Ohta mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp Jean-Francois Mezei wrote: So splitting responsabilities can be an annoyance if it becomes very visible to the end users. No different from competing ISPs using DSL or PON. Sure it is: competing ISPs in a

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-04 Thread Masataka Ohta
Jay Ashworth wrote: In a layer 1 scenario, it means ISP-1 has to physically go and deinstall their CPE and disconnect strand from their OLT, and then ISP-2 can do the reverse and reconnect evrything to provide services. No. Just say optical MDF. Doesn't preclude the need to swap

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-04 Thread Masataka Ohta
Scott Helms wrote: Bot of you are wrong. There is no reason fiber is more expensive than copper, which means SS is cheap, as cheap as copper. Copper isn't cheap, its just there already. Unbundled copper costs about $10/M or so, which means SS fiber can't be more expensive. What is SS?

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-04 Thread Scott Helms
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Masataka Ohta mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp wrote: Scott Helms wrote: Bot of you are wrong. There is no reason fiber is more expensive than copper, which means SS is cheap, as cheap as copper. Copper isn't cheap, its just there already. Unbundled

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-04 Thread Scott Helms
Really, so you think that the thickness of the cable has an impact on how much it should cost? So, tell you what I'll exchange some nice thick 10 gauge copper wire for correction--- 14 gauge platinum, since its much thinner that ought to be a good trade for you, right? ;) -- Scott

Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks?

2013-02-04 Thread Masataka Ohta
Scott Helms wrote: The document, seemingly, does not address drop cable cost difference. It does not address L1 unbundling with WDM-PON, which requires fiber patch panel identical to that required for SS, either. They're not doing WDM-PON or any flavor of PON at all. Its entirely an

Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-02-04 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 4, 2013, at 13:46 , Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com wrote: Brandon, On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Brandon Ross br...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Scott Helms wrote: One thing to keep in mind is that I don't believe its possible to get a contract with the bulk of the

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-04 Thread Masataka Ohta
Scott Helms wrote: Unbundled copper costs about $10/M or so, which means SS fiber can't be more expensive. I'm not sure what you're trying to describe here, the cost of fiber from an ongoing standpoint isn't strongly correlated to the architecture. Upgrades to the fiber and adding service

2013.02.04 NANOG57 day 1 afternoon notes

2013-02-04 Thread Matthew Petach
Notes from the afternoon session, including the community meeting, but minus most of the BCOP presentation have been posted: http://kestrel3.netflight.com/2013.02.04-NANOG57-day1-afternoon-session.txt it looks like apache2 serves up about 100 connections, then wedges. :( No time to

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-04 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 4, 2013, at 13:04 , Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com wrote: Owen, I'm trimming this for my own sanity if I snip out something important please let me know. So long as you recognize that it's on a pair-by-pair basis end-to-end and not expecting any mixing/sharing/etc. by the L1

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-04 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 4, 2013, at 13:17 , Jean-Francois Mezei jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca wrote: On 13-02-04 16:04, Scott Helms wrote: Subscribers don't care if the hand off is at layer 1 or layer 2 so this is moot as well. This is where one has to be carefull. The wholesale scenario in Canada

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-04 Thread Scott Helms
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Masataka Ohta mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp wrote: Scott Helms wrote: Unbundled copper costs about $10/M or so, which means SS fiber can't be more expensive. I'm not sure what you're trying to describe here, the cost of fiber from an ongoing

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-04 Thread Scott Helms
That's where we disagree. The benefit is that: 1. It doesn't lock the entire area into a single current technology. Neither does a ring architecture. Yes it does... It locks you into whatever is supported on the ring. I don't know how I can explain this more plainly, I can (more

Re: 2013.02.04 NANOG57 day 1 afternoon notes

2013-02-04 Thread David Conrad
Matt, Thanks very much (as always) for the great notes! Extremely helpful. Regards, -drc On Feb 4, 2013, at 3:31 PM, Matthew Petach mpet...@netflight.com wrote: Notes from the afternoon session, including the community meeting, but minus most of the BCOP presentation have been posted:

Re: 2013.02.04 NANOG57 day 1 afternoon notes

2013-02-04 Thread Matthew Petach
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:09 PM, David Conrad d...@virtualized.org wrote: Matt, Thanks very much (as always) for the great notes! Extremely helpful. Regards, -drc Glad they're useful--wish I could have been there, the social tomorrow night sounds like it will be absolutely stellar, in true

Metro Ethernet, VPLS clarifications

2013-02-04 Thread Abzal Sembay
Hi experts, I need some clarifications on these terms. Could somebody give explanations or share some links? When and how are these technologies used? Thanks in advance. -- Regards, Abzal

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-04 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 13-02-04 19:48, Scott Helms wrote: same trench IF you have buried cable and there is room. If you have aerial plant (common in rural telco deployments, less common in muni networks) you can also string your fiber on the same poles that you either own or have attachment rights to but the

List of Comcast speeds in Chicago, IL (North side near I-94: Addisson/Irving Park/ area)

2013-02-04 Thread Ishmael Rufus
Could someone help verify the listed speeds for the different services for Comcast: Performance - 20mbps (Customer support is claiming it's now 15mbps) Blast - 30 mbps (Customer support is claiming it's now 20 mbps) I was getting 20+ download speed tests on Performance which is correct. When I

Re: List of Comcast speeds in Chicago, IL (North side near I-94: Addisson/Irving Park/ area)

2013-02-04 Thread PC
The folks in the forums at dslreports.com are generally on top of this like a hawk and are probably a better resource than here. For what its worth, Comcast often provides temporary speed enhancements for the first so many bytes in x seconds, (powerboost), which can often throw off short