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2023-02-06 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mike Hammett wrote: In no way is what I said wrong. Incumbent operators (coax or copper pairs) screw things up constantly (whether technically or in the business side of things), prompting a sea of independent operators to overbuild them (or fill in where they haven't). See below: : htt

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2023-02-06 Thread Josh Luthman
Micro trenching...in suburban or rural deployments? On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 7:59 PM Kevin Shymkiw wrote: > Clayton, > > Did you leverage things like micro trenching for this project? I may be > mislead, but I thought micro trenching these days has helped drive the cost > of doing this down fairl

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2023-02-06 Thread Josh Luthman
oing to be there for 3 years. > > You'd think in the 3 years in the US South it would be grown over and > buried itself. 😉 > > -- > *From:* NANOG on behalf of > Patrick Garner > *Sent:* Friday, February 3, 2023 10:16 AM > *To:* nanog@

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2023-02-06 Thread Mike Hammett
- Original Message - From: "Masataka Ohta" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Monday, February 6, 2023 8:27:07 AM Subject: Re: Spectrum (legacy TWC) Infrastructure - Contact Off List Mike Hammett wrote: > Where did you think that condensation was going to get you in > this conv

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2023-02-06 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mike Hammett wrote: Where did you think that condensation was going to get you in this conversation? I was involved in this thread because of your totally wrong statement of: : I selfishly hope they don't because that's where independent : operators will succeed. ;-) First of all, "Spectrum

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2023-02-05 Thread Mike Hammett
-0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Spectrum (legacy TWC) Infrastructure - Contact Off List Mike Hammett wrote: > Except there are literally thousands of independent ISPs in the US, > many 10+ years old that aren't likely to be going anywhere and > they are moving to constructing their own w

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2023-02-05 Thread Mike Hammett
-0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Spectrum (legacy TWC) Infrastructure - Contact Off List Mike Hammett wrote: > Except there are literally thousands of independent ISPs in the US, > many 10+ years old that aren't likely to be going anywhere and > they are moving to constructing their own w

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2023-02-05 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mike Hammett wrote: Except there are literally thousands of independent ISPs in the US, > many 10+ years old that aren't likely to be going anywhere and > they are moving to constructing their own wireline. Many ILECs enjoying regional monopoly should be 100+ years old: https://en.wik

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2023-02-05 Thread Mike Hammett
WISP - Original Message - From: "Masataka Ohta" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2023 6:56:02 PM Subject: Re: Spectrum (legacy TWC) Infrastructure - Contact Off List Mike Hammett wrote: > Maybe it's not as hard as everyone says? That's exactly the

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2023-02-05 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mike Hammett wrote: Maybe it's not as hard as everyone says? That's exactly the way of thinking by investors during bubble. It should be noted that corona virus not only caused depression against which QE policy was chosen but also forced people stay at home. As such, investing on internet a

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2023-02-05 Thread Mike Hammett
Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: Masataka Ohta To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Sat, 04 Feb 2023 02:14:30 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Spectrum (legacy TWC) Infrastructure - Contact Off List Mike Hammett wrote: > Yet the independents are doing it anyway. Petit bubble caused by quanti

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2023-02-04 Thread Masataka Ohta
- Original Message - From: "Eric Kuhnke" To: "Forrest Christian (List Account)" Cc: "nanog list" Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2023 6:46:01 PM Subject: Re: Spectrum (legacy TWC) Infrastructure - Contact Off List It might look low cost until you look at a post-1980

Re: Spectrum (legacy TWC) Infrastructure - Contact Off List (Patrick Garner)

2023-02-03 Thread Keith Stokes
Patrick Garner Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 10:16 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Spectrum (legacy TWC) Infrastructure - Contact Off List (Patrick Garner) We have the same issue here in suburban Atlanta but with Comcast. The Comcast ped in my front yard has no cover... it's exp

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2023-02-03 Thread Patrick Garner
We have the same issue here in suburban Atlanta but with Comcast. The Comcast ped in my front yard has no cover... it's exposed to the elements. There's a bright orange cable running from there to my neighbor's house, it's been there for at least 3 years. At the least, it doesn't touch my property.

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2023-02-03 Thread Mike Hammett
: Thursday, February 2, 2023 6:46:01 PM Subject: Re: Spectrum (legacy TWC) Infrastructure - Contact Off List It might look low cost until you look at a post-1980s suburb in the USA or Canada where 100% of the utilities are underground. There may be no fiber or duct routes. Just old coax use

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2023-02-03 Thread Clayton Zekelman
At 08:43 PM 02/02/2023, Eric Kuhnke wrote: There is "microtrenching" and then there is microtrenching. Very different things are sometimes described by the same name. Some of what Google tried to go was exceedingly shallow, like 4 inches down. Cheap microtrenching done too quick and too shall

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2023-02-02 Thread Eric Kuhnke
There is "microtrenching" and then there is microtrenching. Very different things are sometimes described by the same name. Some of what Google tried to go was exceedingly shallow, like 4 inches down. Cheap microtrenching done too quick and too shallow has given the concept a bad name. There is mi

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2023-02-02 Thread Sabri Berisha
- On Feb 2, 2023, at 4:55 PM, Clayton Zekelman clay...@mnsi.net wrote: > The cost is not low. Trust me on that. I've been involved in a pretty massive > suburban fibre deployment for the past decade... My neighborhood is currently serviced by coax only. A contractor for Frontier is digging,

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2023-02-02 Thread Clayton Zekelman
It may. We don't use it. Too many freeze/thaw cycles each winter around here. It would get destroyed in a few years. Google tried to cheap out in Louisville... didn't quite work out https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/7/18215743/google-fiber-leaving-louisville-service-ending - although that

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2023-02-02 Thread Kevin Shymkiw
Clayton, Did you leverage things like micro trenching for this project? I may be mislead, but I thought micro trenching these days has helped drive the cost of doing this down fairly significantly. Kevin On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 17:56 Clayton Zekelman wrote: > > The cost is not low. Trust me o

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2023-02-02 Thread Clayton Zekelman
The cost is not low. Trust me on that. I've been involved in a pretty massive suburban fibre deployment for the past decade... I expect we'll make money sometime in the 2030's... in time for me to retire. At 12:13 PM 02/02/2023, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: The cost to build phy

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2023-02-02 Thread Eric Kuhnke
It might look low cost until you look at a post-1980s suburb in the USA or Canada where 100% of the utilities are underground. There may be no fiber or duct routes. Just old coax used for DOCSIS3 owned/run by the local cable incumbent and copper POTS wiring belonging to the ILEC. The cost to retrof

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2023-02-02 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
The cost to build physical layer in much of the suburban and somewhat rural US is low enough anymore that lots of smaller, independent, ISPs are overbuilding the incumbent with fiber and taking a big chunk of their customer base because they are local and care. And making money while doing it. O

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2023-02-02 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mike Hammett wrote: I selfishly hope they don't because that's where independent operators will succeed. ;-) Because of natural regional monopoly at physical layer (cabling cost for a certain region is same between competitors but their revenues are proportional to their regional market shares

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2023-02-02 Thread Mike Hammett
t; Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2023 4:18:46 PM Subject: Re: Spectrum (legacy TWC) Infrastructure - Contact Off List I think that this really says more about the race to the bottom in last mile residential operations. It seems inevitable that once a last mile residentia

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2023-02-01 Thread Eric Kuhnke
I think that this really says more about the race to the bottom in last mile residential operations. It seems inevitable that once a last mile residential broadband operator grows to a certain gargantuan size, the quality of the network suffers and nobody really cares to take ownership of specific

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2023-01-31 Thread Shawn L via NANOG
until the customer complains about their service being out. In which case, the same tech that ran the 'low-level' drop between PEDs will likely come back and do it again. -Original Message- From: "Andy Brezinsky" Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2023 5:27pm To: nanog@nano

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2023-01-31 Thread Andy Brezinsky
Access to the right-of-way in most areas is granted through a CATV Franchise agreement with your municipality.  This agreement will include a contact for disputes.  As another avenue, contact the local government and ask them to deal with the safety issue in the public right of way and let them

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2023-01-31 Thread Grant Taylor via NANOG
On 1/31/23 2:33 PM, Gabriel Kuri via NANOG wrote: Apparently the local infrastructure crew thinks it's OK to leave cable running between two cans in a residential neighborhood since at least July 2022. But it's OK, because they've cautioned them off with orange cones, right ? Multiple calls t