Cable companies already offer BGP fiber connections to anyone (including other operators). Comcast and Charter are two that I know off the top of my head that do. Comcast installs fiber to your prem and is $1000 for 5 megs, up to a full GigE.
---------- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Comcast will also be offering up to 50 Mbps >> Oh boy are they digging themselves a big hole! >> >> All of the money is in the TV side of things and they are making it >> easier >> for people to watch TV via the web instead of via the cable co. On top >> of >> that they are talking about chewing up 4 TV channels PER CUSTOMER!!!! >> Wowsers. > > Not per custommer rather for the entire node. Currently one channel > is shared among many. In future 4 will be shared among many. > >> It's going to be amazing to watch where all of this is going to end up. >> >> This is actually great news for the smaller wisps out there. $200 50 meg >> connections. Very nice. I'd drop my $1000 10 meg connection for that! >> Or >> at the very least, buy a very high speed backup link. > > Me thinks it would be a very cold day in .... that they would give you > more then a small handfull of IP's with that or let you do something > like BGP. > > Matt > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
