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: 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: 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: 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