Re: Muni Fiber (was: Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc)

2012-03-26 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Jacob Broussard wrote: > Who knows what technology will be like in 5-10 years?  That's the whole > point of what he was trying to say.  Maybe wireless carriers will use > visible wavelength lasers to recievers on top of customer's houses for all > we know.  10 year

Re: Muni Fiber (was: Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc)

2012-03-26 Thread Jacob Broussard
Who knows what technology will be like in 5-10 years? That's the whole point of what he was trying to say. Maybe wireless carriers will use visible wavelength lasers to recievers on top of customer's houses for all we know. 10 years is a LONG time for tech, and anything can happen. On Mar 25, 20

Re: Muni Fiber

2012-03-26 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Ray Soucy" > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > > It'll never be done though. Too much to lose by creating a > > > topology which allows you to unbundle the tail. > > > > A municipality hasn't much to lose; they can declare a monopoly.

Re: Muni Fiber

2012-03-26 Thread Ray Soucy
True, but it's the one monopoly where you get a vote. I'm not sure it's fair to call a municipality a monopoly ... but that's just me. On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Nick Hilliard" > > > > wiring center you enable all technologies.

Re: Muni Fiber (was: Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc)

2012-03-26 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "JC Dill" > On 25/03/12 8:56 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > > In a message written on Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:47:58AM -0400, Jay > > Ashworth wrote: > >> Well, for my part, /most of the poiny/ of muni is The Public Good; > >> if /actual/ bond financed muni fiber is

Re: Muni Fiber

2012-03-26 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Nick Hilliard" > > wiring center you enable all technologies. GPON today, direct GigE > > or 10GE where necessary, and all future technologies. > > yep, agreed - much more sensible, much more resilient to failure and > only marginally more expensive. > > It

Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al)

2012-03-26 Thread Ray Soucy
It varies from state to state ... In Maine, we've run an E-rate filing consortium for several years that uses E-rate funds and makes up the difference with a state telecommunications tax so schools and libraries don't need to pay for service. Up until a year or two ago, Verizon was always contrac

Re: Verizon, FiOS, and CLEC/UNE orders (was AT&T diversity)

2012-03-26 Thread Joe Maimon
Owen DeLong wrote: Right, but a better approach would have been for the FCC to say "If you don't build fiber, you won't keep getting USF money." The FCC failed to look at the public interest and got rolled by the RBOCs again. Owen Regulatory capture. Nobody is immune. The only effective ma

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-26 Thread Rodrick Brown
On Mar 26, 2012, at 9:32 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:59:34 -0400, Rodrick Brown said: >> HIgh frequency trading does provide a service to the financial markets as a >> whole despite what the media and government politicians will have you think. > > OK, I'll bite. W

RE: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al)

2012-03-26 Thread Chuck Church
-Original Message- From: david peahi [mailto:davidpe...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 1:54 PM To: Jared Mauch Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al) >I have discovered that the Federal School Lunch E-Rate program has built

Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al)

2012-03-26 Thread david peahi
I have discovered that the Federal School Lunch E-Rate program has built out an entirely parallel fiber optic infrastructure in the USA, bypassing telco fiber in many urban areas such as Los Angeles/Southern California. There are now companies that exist solely to construct E-Rate fiber. Sunesys is

Re: Muni Fiber

2012-03-26 Thread Miles Fidelman
Nathan Eisenberg wrote: -Original Message- From: joshua.kl...@gmail.com [mailto:joshua.kl...@gmail.com] But they also deserve to have or enjoy the benefits that comes with living in the big cities I grew up in a rural area served by dialup for the first 15 years of my life, so please

Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al)

2012-03-26 Thread Ray Soucy
Here in Maine, after seeing no strong proposals were being put forward by others, we went after American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to address a major lack of middle-mile infrastructure in the state. Verizon had stopped making new investments in Maine for nearly 10 years before pulling ou

RE: Muni Fiber (was: Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc)

2012-03-26 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> -Original Message- > From: joshua.kl...@gmail.com [mailto:joshua.kl...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 2:10 AM > To: Owen DeLong; Frank Bulk; Jay Ashworth > Cc: NANOG > Subject: Re: Muni Fiber (was: Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, > etc) > > But they also deserve to have

Re: Muni Fiber (was: Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc)

2012-03-26 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "joshua klubi" > But they also deserve to have or enjoy the benefits that comes with > living in the big cities Well, "deserve" is a strong word... but the underlying thought is my primary reason for believing that municipal fiber is a good solution, and I'll

Re: Muni Fiber

2012-03-26 Thread Jared Mauch
Active Ethernet solution outdoor enclosure sfp+2xGE+2xPOTS is about 350 without optics Inside device is closer to 150-160. ... Certainly agree on install costs. Jared On Mar 26, 2012, at 8:23 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote: > Jared Mauch wrote: > >>> Another important expense of FTTH is at the la

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-26 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:59:34 -0400, Rodrick Brown said: > HIgh frequency trading does provide a service to the financial markets as a > whole despite what the media and government politicians will have you think. OK, I'll bite. What benefit does the market *as a whole* get from the ability to do t

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-26 Thread Rodrick Brown
On Mar 23, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: > valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >>> The massive drop in latency is expected to supercharge algorithmic stock >>> market trading, where a difference of a few milliseconds can gain (or lose) >>> millions of dollars. >> But it should be illegal to

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-26 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:16:53 +0200, Tei said: > I imagine a easier solution. Use a random number generator in both > sides, with the same seed. Then use a slower way to send "packets > re-sync" that will contain the delta from the generated number, to the > real actual number. Congrats. You've

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-26 Thread Joe Loiacono
Tei wrote on 03/26/2012 06:16:53 AM: > I imagine a easier solution. Use a random number generator in both > sides, with the same seed. Then use a slower way to send "packets > re-sync" that will contain the delta from the generated number, to the > real actual number. > > I suppose this speeds

Re: Muni Fiber

2012-03-26 Thread Masataka Ohta
Jared Mauch wrote: >> Another important expense of FTTH is at the last yards of >> dropping cables fro the laed fiber, where SS needs simple >> closures and shorter dropping cables than PON. > These enclosures (including all electronics but SFP) are around $350. What? What do you mean "includin

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-26 Thread Tei
On 23 March 2012 13:31, Aled Morris wrote: > On 23 March 2012 11:53, Eugen Leitl wrote: > >> All three cables are being laid for the same reasons: Redundancy and speed. >> As it stands, it takes roughly 230 milliseconds for a packet to go from >> London to Tokyo; the new cables will reduce this b

Re: Muni Fiber (was: Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc)

2012-03-26 Thread joshua . klubi
But they also deserve to have or enjoy the benefits that comes with living in the big cities -- Sent from my Nokia N9 On 25/03/2012 15:47 Jay Ashworth wrote: Well, for my part, /most of the poiny/ of muni is The Public Good; if /actual/ bond financed muni fiber is skipping the Hard Parts, i

Re: Muni Fiber

2012-03-26 Thread Jared Mauch
On Mar 25, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Masataka Ohta wrote: > Nick Hilliard wrote: > >> most of the expense of laying fibre is associated with ducting + wayleave. > > Another important expense of FTTH is at the last yards of > dropping cables fro the laed fiber, where SS needs simple > closures and short