Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-05 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
Hi Jay, Le 29/01/2013 18:54, Jay Ashworth a écrit : Hmmm. I tend to be a Layer-2-available guy, cause I think it lets smaller players play. Please let me present the french regulatory rules about that. It has been an ongoing debate for a few years and is now almost stable. French regulation

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-02-05 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com writes: Still, the power budget improvements by not going with a single strand active ethernet solution (which were another suggested technology and has actually been deployed by some muni PON folks like Clarkesville, TN) are huge. Imagine a 24 port switch that

Re: Metro Ethernet, VPLS clarifications

2013-02-05 Thread Scott Helms
Metro-Ethernet is generally the term used to describe Ethernet used as a WAN connection or as a point to point connection. There was at one time the concept of a MAN (Metro Area Network) but metro ethernet is now available in more scenarios than that described. The connectivity can be over fiber

L3 East cost maint / fiber 05FEB2012 maintenance

2013-02-05 Thread Josh Reynolds
I know a lot of you are out of the office right now, but does anybody have any info on what happened with L3 this morning? They went into a 5 hour maintenance window with expected downtime of about 30 minutes while they upgraded something like *40* of their core routers (their words), but also did

Re: L3 East cost maint / fiber 05FEB2012 maintenance

2013-02-05 Thread Viral Vira
We also noticed outage due to L3 Maintenance that went into the outage. We were not even notified about the Maintenance itself. We also noticed black hauling in their network. -Thanks, Viral On 5 February 2013 21:09, Josh Reynolds ess...@gmail.com wrote: I know a lot of you are out of the

RE: L3 East cost maint / fiber 05FEB2012 maintenance

2013-02-05 Thread David Hubbard
We saw the same thing out of their Tampa location; there was a brief drop around 2am EST and a more severe one around 4:05 AM which lasted about 10 minutes for us. Unfortunately whatever they did, they did it in a way that our BGP sessions stayed up so we couldn't react until bgpmon altered me

Re: L3 East cost maint / fiber 05FEB2012 maintenance

2013-02-05 Thread Jon Lewis
On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Josh Reynolds wrote: I know a lot of you are out of the office right now, but does anybody have any info on what happened with L3 this morning? They went into a 5 hour maintenance window with expected downtime of about 30 minutes while they upgraded something like *40* of

RE: L3 East cost maint / fiber 05FEB2012 maintenance

2013-02-05 Thread Nick Olsen
We saw the same here, However our session did tear down. I was told they were doing scheduled emergency maintenance about 3:30PM EST Yesterday. We're hung off the orlando market. Nick Olsen Network Operations (855) FLSPEED x106 From: David Hubbard

Re: L3 East cost maint / fiber 05FEB2012 maintenance

2013-02-05 Thread Jason Lixfeld
I got notification of their maintenance window, albeit with 24 hours notice. Notice came in at 11:00GMT-5 yesterday, maintenance was scheduled for 00:00GMT-5 this morning. That said, the notice said that the maintenance was in Phoenix but I got a notice about my IPT circuit at 60 Hudson

RE: L3 East cost maint / fiber 05FEB2012 maintenance

2013-02-05 Thread 2asx1y702
I acknowledge sliding past the maintenance window, and we're seeing similar bumps, 09:42 - 09:46 CST is most recent. This are with our Wisconsin and Netherlands locations. They seem to be having a bad day all around. KG Hi Andrey!

How far must muni fiber operators protect ISP competition?

2013-02-05 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Owen DeLong o...@delong.com Actually, as I understood what was proposed, you would bring Cable Coop and/or other such vendors into the colo space adjacent to the MMR and let them sell directly to the other service providers and/or customers. I am of two

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-05 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Masataka Ohta mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp My point is that a conduit capable of storing additional 10 guage copper can, instead, store 10 guage fiber. Or, if you assume a conduit without any extra space, upgrading to PON is also impossible. Sure.

Re: L3 East cost maint / fiber 05FEB2012 maintenance

2013-02-05 Thread Ben Bartsch
We lost our peering with them in Baton Rouge (Houston) but not in Jackson MS (Atlanta). It was less than 10 minutes. No advanced notification. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:06 AM, 2asx1y...@sneakemail.com wrote: I acknowledge sliding past the maintenance window, and we're seeing similar bumps,

Re: How far must muni fiber operators protect ISP competition?

2013-02-05 Thread Scott Helms
On the video side or the total data project? Both? On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Owen DeLong o...@delong.com Actually, as I understood what was proposed, you would bring Cable Coop and/or other such vendors into

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-05 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com 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 accurately have) taken a fiber build that was created as a ring spoke SONET system and with

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-05 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Jérôme Nicolle jer...@ceriz.fr Le 29/01/2013 18:54, Jay Ashworth a écrit : Hmmm. I tend to be a Layer-2-available guy, cause I think it lets smaller players play. Please let me present the french regulatory rules about that. It has been an ongoing

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-02-05 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Robert E. Seastrom r...@seastrom.com Hmm. the optics don't have auto power control? Auto power control would apply to launch levels for the light; assuming a launch level of -3 dBm and lasers that were only 1 percent efficient (combination of spec max

RE: How far must muni fiber operators protect ISP competition?

2013-02-05 Thread Tony Hain
IMHO: level of clue is a minor point, as that can be bought. The fundamental issues for a project like this are funding, and intent. Well-funded organizations that lack intent are just problem children that like to tie up the courts to keep others from making progress. The target for a

Re: How far must muni fiber operators protect ISP competition?

2013-02-05 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com On the video side or the total data project? Both? The point of open fiber is to level the competitive marketplace as much as possible for provider. Which approach better services that goal: telling them all about all the

Re: How far must muni fiber operators protect ISP competition?

2013-02-05 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Tony Hain alh-i...@tndh.net IMHO: level of clue is a minor point, as that can be bought. The fundamental issues for a project like this are funding, and intent. Well-funded organizations that lack intent are just problem children that like to tie up the

Re: L3 East cost maint / fiber 05FEB2012 maintenance

2013-02-05 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
My hunch is that this is fallout and repairs from Juniper PR839412. Only fix is an upgrade. Not sure why they're not able to do a hitless upgrade though; that's unfortunate. Specially-crafted TCP packets that can get past RE/loopback filters can crash the box. --j On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:39

Re: L3 East cost maint / fiber 05FEB2012 maintenance

2013-02-05 Thread Jason Biel
Workaround is proper filtering and other techniques on the RE/Loopback to prevent the issue from happening. Should an upgrade be performed? Yes, but certainly doesn't have to have right away or without notice to customers. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Jonathan Lassoff j...@thejof.com wrote:

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-05 Thread Scott Helms
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com 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 accurately have)

Re: L3 East cost maint / fiber 05FEB2012 maintenance

2013-02-05 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Jason Biel ja...@biel-tech.com wrote: Workaround is proper filtering and other techniques on the RE/Loopback to prevent the issue from happening. Agreed. However, if it only takes one packet, what if an attacker sources the traffic from your management address

Re: How far must muni fiber operators protect ISP competition?

2013-02-05 Thread Scott Helms
Jay, On the data side that's certainly possible, but the content guys won't play ball on a shared L2 network. This actually undermines my position on how to architect your system, but sharing anything from one of the big content guys isn't something I've seen them allow as of yet. Organizations

Re: L3 East cost maint / fiber 05FEB2012 maintenance

2013-02-05 Thread Jason Biel
Agree as well. Bad assumption on my part that Level3 would doing the items listed in the workaround already. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Jonathan Lassoff j...@thejof.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Jason Biel ja...@biel-tech.com wrote: Workaround is proper filtering and other

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-05 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com Overlaid? Could you clarify that? Sure, ring, hub spoke, home run, star these are all descriptions of the physical architecture and many layer 2 technologies will happily use them all including Ethernet. To use a specific

Re: How far must muni fiber operators protect ISP competition?

2013-02-05 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com On the data side that's certainly possible, but the content guys won't play ball on a shared L2 network. This actually undermines my position on how to architect your system, but sharing anything from one of the big content

2013.02.05 NANOG57 day2 morning session notes are up

2013-02-05 Thread Matthew Petach
I posted my notes from this morning's session at http://kestrel3.netflight.com/2013.02.05-NANOG57-day2-morning-session.txt Sorry about the gap in the notes about the telegeography talk; my player decided to wig out, and then die, and I lost a chunk while switching to the redundant computer.

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-05 Thread Scott Helms
You *put active equipment out in the physical plant*. I'm sure that there are some physical plant design criteria that permit that decision, but mine isn't one of them, for reasons I believe I've made fairly clear. You disagree with some of those as well, of course, but you understand

Re: L3 East cost maint / fiber 05FEB2012 maintenance

2013-02-05 Thread joel jaeggli
On 2/5/13 10:02 AM, Jason Biel wrote: Agree as well. Bad assumption on my part that Level3 would doing the items listed in the workaround already. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Jonathan Lassoff j...@thejof.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Jason Biel ja...@biel-tech.com wrote:

REMINDER - Register Now for ARIN Public Policy Consultation @ NANOG 57

2013-02-05 Thread John Curran
REMINDER - If you are remotely participating in the NANOG 57 meeting, and intend to participate in the ARIN Public Policy Consultation, you must register to participate in the jabber session and thus ask questions and be counted in any polls conducted. For those not already registered at this

ATT Uverse/DSL Network Engineer DNS question

2013-02-05 Thread Tim Haak
Hi, Can a ATT Uverse/DSL Network Engineer answer a question about the DNS server IPs that are handed out to customers please? I am currently testing from a Florida IP. Can you please let me know if all Uverse and DSL customers across the United States only use these 2 IPs as their

Re: ATT Uverse/DSL Network Engineer DNS question

2013-02-05 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
These appear to be an anycasted service, as I reach different destinations based on my source address. Hopefully each deployment has unique origin IPs for their recursive queries. I would recommend against looking at RIR registration data to determine IP location. There's often little to no

Re: ATT Uverse/DSL Network Engineer DNS question

2013-02-05 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Jonathan Lassoff j...@thejof.com wrote: These appear to be an anycasted service, as I reach different destinations based on my source address. Hopefully each deployment has unique origin IPs for their recursive queries. Just confirmed this. As these

Re: ATT Uverse/DSL Network Engineer DNS question

2013-02-05 Thread Warren Bailey
Here in Orange County, CA I've got a /28 with Uverse Residential with the same DNS servers as mentioned below. FYI On 2/5/13 1:10 PM, Jonathan Lassoff j...@thejof.com wrote: These appear to be an anycasted service, as I reach different destinations based on my source address. Hopefully each

2013.02.05 NANOG57 day2 afternoon session

2013-02-05 Thread Matthew Petach
Notes, complete with typos are up at http://kestrel3.netflight.com/2013.02.05-NANOG57-day2-afternoon-session.txt definitely awesome content today; bummed i missed out, sounds like tonight should be an absolute blast at seaworld--have fun, and we'll see what tomorrow brings. :) Matt

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-05 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 5, 2013, at 9:37 AM, Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com Yes it does... It locks you into whatever is supported on the ring. I don't know how

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-05 Thread Masataka Ohta
Scott Helms wrote: They are not soo different, as long as you try to recover initial cost not so quickly, which is why copper costs about $10/M or so. I know several dozen companies that do this kind of construction and they don't agree. That is, they are trying to recover initial cost

RE: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-05 Thread Eric Wieling
In the past the ISP simply needed a nice big ATM pipe to the ILEC for DSL service. The ILEC provided a PVC from the customer endpoint to the ISP. As understand it this is no longer the case, but only because of non-technical issues. We currently use XO, Covad, etc to connect to the customer

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-05 Thread Masataka Ohta
Eric Wieling wrote: In the past the ISP simply needed a nice big ATM pipe to the ILEC for DSL service. The ILEC provided a PVC from the customer endpoint to the ISP. As understand it this is no longer the case, but only because of non-technical issues. The non-technical issue is

RE: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-05 Thread Eric Wieling
The ILECs basically got large portions of the 1996 telecom reform rules gutted via lawsuits. DSL unbundling was part of this. See http://quello.msu.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/wp-05-02.pdf The ILECs already need a DSLAM in each CO and already use ATM PVCs to provide L2 connectivity from

Re: Metro Ethernet, VPLS clarifications

2013-02-05 Thread Abzal Sembay
05.02.2013 19:58, Scott Helms ?: Metro-Ethernet is generally the term used to describe Ethernet used as a WAN connection or as a point to point connection. There was at one time the concept of a MAN (Metro Area Network) but metro ethernet is now available in more scenarios than that

Re: Metro Ethernet, VPLS clarifications

2013-02-05 Thread david peahi
The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) develops standards for Metro Ethernet, which are generally implemented by telcos/cablecos. See the following link: http://metroethernetforum.org/ The 2 biggest problems I have found with telco/cableco MEF services are: 1. In network configurations where all sites

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-05 Thread Masataka Ohta
Eric Wieling wrote: I don't think it is that much more expensive to allow other ISPs an ATM PVC into their network. Wrong, which is why ATM has disappeared. ATM may not be the best technology to do this, It is not. but the basic concept is not bad. It is not enough, even if you use