On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Justin M. Streiner <strei...@cluebyfour.org> wrote: > All: > > I realize this might be a bit of a fool's errand, but I'm trying to > determine if Verizon will speak BGP with FiOS business customers. Their > website is relatively lean on details. Everything that mentions BGP points > to VZB services, which does not appear to include FiOS. Looking at the > routing table, I do see several non-VZ ASNs downstream of AS19262, so it > looks like it might be possible. > > If that is the case, could anyone lend any insight to get past the "what is > BGP?" response that likely awaits from their salescritters?
So.... techsupport folks aside.. the product they sell is: A) DHCP only, single address, dynamic B) Single Static address (uplift of 25$/month I believe?) C) 5 ips STATICALLY ROUTED AS /32's!! (WTF??) for 25$ above the option-B above/month. You can't bring your own space You can't do BGP You can get more than 5 ips (in 5 ip chunks I believe) for 25$/month per chunk... ip address rental, welcome to 1999! Also, I know that on 701 the rate of BGP to non-BGP customers was increasing and was at ~30% or so as of ~2007... You'd think that 19262 would see that, see the business opportunity and offer it? Though, I suppose they DO see the business opportunity: "You want bgp? you want to bring your own ips? you want more than a DHCP address? Pay up, a lot." weee! fun times! At some point there was fairly serious talk of moving the FIOS product into the last-mile offering for 701 customers as well, guess that didn't happen? :( Seems, to me at least, like the PON technology would be a win/win for large ISP customers... easy upgrade paths (dial-on-demand-bandwidth almost?) and simple CPE deployments: "Ethernet? sure it's available!" -chris
