Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Aug 27, 2009, at 11:11 PM, Richard Bennett wrote: The background issue is whether satellite-based systems at around 200 Kb/s and high latency can be defined as "broadband." Since everyone in America - including the Alaskans - has access to satellite services, defining that level of serv

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread David Barak
- Original Message From: James Downs Except this is exactly what happened. The players with vested interests were allowed a sort of "first refusal" on projects. In areas where they had lots of customers, they passed on the projects. So, we find that in urban areas, you can't get f

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
The problem is that if you break down the costs, you'll find out that it almost doesn't matter what you put in as a cost of the total build; the big costs are the engineering and the labor to install, not the "cost of the NID" or anything like that. Nobody cares whether you saved a million bucks

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread deleskie
Rob, well put. -jim Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -Original Message- From: "Robert E. Seastrom" Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:29:58 To: Jack Bates Cc: Robert Enger - NANOG; Subject: Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband The problem is that if you

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Jack Bates
JC Dill wrote: IMHO the biggest obstacle to defining broadband is figuring out how to describe how it is used in a way that prevents an ILEC from installing it so that only the ILEC can use it. If the customer doesn't have at Oh, that's easy. If the government pays for 90% of the plant cost,

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Jack Bates
Robert E. Seastrom wrote: The problem is that if you break down the costs, you'll find out that it almost doesn't matter what you put in as a cost of the total build; the big costs are the engineering and the labor to install, not the "cost of the NID" or anything like that. Nobody cares whether

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Dorn Hetzel
Perhaps the most practical service for both broadband and ALWAYS-on voice service is one pair of copper (POTS) and one pair of fiber everything-else per house. Does anyone have a ballpark guess on the incremental cost of a strand-mile (assuming the ditch is going to be dug and the cable put in it,

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Joe Greco
> JC Dill wrote: > > IMHO the biggest obstacle to defining broadband is figuring out how to > > describe how it is used in a way that prevents an ILEC from installing > > it so that only the ILEC can use it. If the customer doesn't have at > > Oh, that's easy. If the government pays for 90% of

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Daniel Senie
On Aug 28, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Jack Bates wrote: Robert E. Seastrom wrote: The problem is that if you break down the costs, you'll find out that it almost doesn't matter what you put in as a cost of the total build; the big costs are the engineering and the labor to install, not the "cost of

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Jack Bates
Joe Greco wrote: We've *already* subsidized the telcos $200 billion for a next generation broadband-capable plant, that was supposed to be LEC-neutral... Yeah, not every telco participated, though the RBOCs sure did. So, we've *already* paid the plant cost, and we've gotten nothing much in re

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 09:19:50AM -0500, Jack Bates wrote: > Looking at just Oklahoma, I'm not sure AT&T could get even 200kb to > every household for $200b. For an interesting set of cost comparisons In most locations every home has electrical service. What's the cost

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Michael Holstein
Oh, that's easy. If the government pays for 90% of the plant cost There have been countless times where a local government wanted to install the fiber *themselves*, only to have the ILEC file a lawsuit and/or petition (bribe) the State Legislature to prevent installation. Cheers, Michael

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Jack Bates
Daniel Senie wrote: Before you get too hung up on the emergency phone thing, take a hard look at the present day. The telcos pushed SLC gear out everywhere. I'm the network engineer for 12 ILECs. Over the last 10 years, I've seen several major outages (> 48 hours) where voice has been maintai

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Jack Bates
Michael Holstein wrote: There have been countless times where a local government wanted to install the fiber *themselves*, only to have the ILEC file a lawsuit and/or petition (bribe) the State Legislature to prevent installation. Out of curiousity, ILEC or RBOC? Have some pointers? Jack

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Daniel Senie said: > Before you get too hung up on the emergency phone thing, take a hard > look at the present day. The telcos pushed SLC gear out everywhere. > Those have batteries, but at least in some areas, no maintenance was > done, batteries died, and when the power

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Jack Bates
Leo Bicknell wrote: In most locations every home has electrical service. What's the cost per household? $20/mo electric bill. That would so rock. Most houses have a statem maintained road in front of them, what is the cost per household? Paid for by City/County or more commonly by the land

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:00:32AM -0500, Jack Bates wrote: > Leo Bicknell wrote: > >In most locations every home has electrical service. What's the > >cost per household? > > $20/mo electric bill. That would so rock. There is the cost to put the line in to your house, and t

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Peter Beckman
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Leo Bicknell wrote: In most areas of the country you can't get a permit to build a house without electrical service (something solar and other off the grid people are fighting). Since it is so much more cost effective to install with new construction, why don't we have code

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Joe Abley
On 28-Aug-2009, at 08:14, Peter Beckman wrote: On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Leo Bicknell wrote: In most areas of the country you can't get a permit to build a house without electrical service (something solar and other off the grid people are fighting). Since it is so much more cost effective to i

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Peter Beckman
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Joe Abley wrote: On 28-Aug-2009, at 08:14, Peter Beckman wrote: And where does that fiber go to? Home runs from a central point in the development, so any provider can hook up to any house at the street? Deregulation means those lines should be accessible to any company f

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Jack Bates
Peter Beckman wrote: I like that idea, except for the problem that I don't want my neighbors to have access to the colo, or at least my feed, but I want access to my feed to I can reboot whatever device is connected there. There would have to be individual locked cages of some standard size

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Andrew Carey
On Aug 28, 2009, at 7:17 AM, Daniel Senie wrote: If you want to make the emergency phone thing a part of the discussion, then regulations need to exist AND be enforced, and penalties assessed, for failure to provide such during power outages. It's not happening today, so don't expect it i

MPLS Services

2009-08-28 Thread Kenny Sallee
Questions for the community: from a Application Service Provider perspective - how / can one provide application access to a group of Enterprises where the ASP provider provides ASP like applications to all Enterprise customers who have multiple locations and who may or may not have overlapping ad

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Peter Beckman said: > And where does that fiber go to? Home runs from a central point in the > development, so any provider can hook up to any house at the street? > Deregulation means those lines should be accessible to any company for a > fee. How do you give House A Veri

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Jack Bates wrote: > I've yet to hear an ILEC suggest that they not > have batteries in the NID to support the voice in power outages. The battery in my FTTH NID is completely useless. It maintains the voice side of the NID but drops the Internet side. Only, I cance

Weekly Routing Table Report

2009-08-28 Thread Routing Analysis Role Account
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RE: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Carlos Alcantar
The dropping of internet is done on purpose to preserve the battery for the pots when ac power is lost. This is an actual setting in just about all manufacturers of ftth equipment. You'll probably have a hard time to get them to change the profile on the equipment tho but it is possible. Carlos

RE: MPLS Services

2009-08-28 Thread Ivan Pepelnjak
This might give you some ideas (also solves the overlapping customer address problem): http://www.nil.com/ipcorner/FlexExtraImplement/ Ivan http://www.ioshints.info/about http://blog.ioshints.info/ > -Original Message- > From: Kenny Sallee [mailto:kenny.sal...@gmail.com] > Sent: Frid

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Carlos Alcantar wrote: > The dropping of internet is done on purpose to preserve the battery for > the pots when ac power is lost.  This is an actual setting in just about > all manufacturers of ftth equipment.  You'll probably have a hard time > to get them to chan

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Walter Keen
I agree, while the majority of government and service providers have the opinion that POTS is a lifeline service, and ethernet is not, I disagree. I know the service provider I work for is starting to change their views on this, but it will take time for the general populous of mana

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Luke Marrott
One thing that I think service providers take into account is that while many people still have phones that do not have their own power source, battery backups for home computers aren't that common as a general rule. There is no need to have battery backup for internet services if the computer does

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Aug 28, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Luke Marrott wrote: One thing that I think service providers take into account is that while many people still have phones that do not have their own power source, battery backups for home computers aren't that common as a general rule. There is no need to have

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Luke Marrott wrote: >> Bill Herrin: >> I realize why it's done. I merely point out that there are common >> configurations in which the having the FTTH NID power the POTS >> circuitry and drop the Internet circuitry is exactly the opposite of >> correct. Where inste

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Jay Hennigan
William Herrin wrote: You would suggest treating the Ethernet and POTS ports the same for power backup purposes until the ethernet port drops its carrier for 60 seconds or so? Maybe do the same for the POTs ports wrt detecting whether any phones are attached? Nah, that would make far too much se

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Dorn Hetzel
If all of the POTS attached phones on the "emergency" circuit are on-hook and there are no incoming calls, then not much power should be required. If a phone goes off-hook it should be much easier to detect. If the network facing side is up it can power up the POTS circuit when an incoming call i

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Jack Bates
Walter Keen wrote: I agree, while the majority of government and service providers have the opinion that POTS is a lifeline service, and ethernet is not, I disagree. I know the service provider I work for is starting to change their views on this, but it will take time for the genera

RE: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Skywing
And how many of them also have a "cable/DSL wireless router" thingie plugged into the wall in between? (Sure, you can unplug it -- if you know to do that, without being able to phone anyone to be told to do so...) - S -Original Message- From: Marshall Eubanks Sent: Friday, August 28,

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Dorn Hetzel
Maybe an NID with an integrated phone and a hand-crank-generator so you can always crank it to make a call :) On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:59 PM, William Herrin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Jack Bates wrote: > > I've yet to hear an ILEC suggest that they not > > have batteries in the NI

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Jack Bates
Dorn Hetzel wrote: Maybe an NID with an integrated phone and a hand-crank-generator so you can always crank it to make a call :) Oh, man. If only I were old enough for that to be nostalgic. ;) Jack

Re: MPLS Services

2009-08-28 Thread Kenny Sallee
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Ivan Pepelnjak wrote: > This might give you some ideas (also solves the overlapping customer > address > problem): > > http://www.nil.com/ipcorner/FlexExtraImplement/ > > Ivan > > http://www.ioshints.info/about > http://blog.ioshints.info/ > That looks very inte

Re: MPLS Services

2009-08-28 Thread Kenny Sallee
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Kenny Sallee wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Ivan Pepelnjak wrote: > >> This might give you some ideas (also solves the overlapping customer >> address >> problem): >> >> http://www.nil.com/ipcorner/FlexExtraImplement/ >> >> Ivan >> >> http://www.ioshin

Ready to get your federal computer license?

2009-08-28 Thread Hiers, David
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Re: Ready to get your federal computer license?

2009-08-28 Thread Peter Beckman
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Hiers, David wrote: Governments already license stock brokers, pilots, commercial drivers, accountants, engineers, all sorts of people whose mistakes can be measured in the loss of hundreds of lives and millions of dollars. "'The power company allowed their network securi

Re: Ready to get your federal computer license?

2009-08-28 Thread David Temkin
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Hiers, David wrote: > Governments already license stock brokers, pilots, commercial drivers, > accountants, engineers, all sorts of people whose mistakes can be measured > in the loss of hundreds of lives and millions of dollars. > > > http://sip-trunking.tmcnet.c

RE: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Frank Bulk
James: I'm not following you here -- which party has the right of first refusal? If I had to guess, what really happened here is that the rural LEC is able to build out FTTH because they are counting on USF (high cost loop support and interstate common line support) to help pay it, while the LEC

RE: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Frank Bulk
Jc: Remember, some rural and high-cost areas can't support multiple wireline providers. May not even a wireless and wireline provider (though satellite is a given). So yes, pricing in these near-monopoly areas might be higher than in an area with real competition, but does that pricing mean the

RE: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Frank Bulk
That deadline is for video. Frank -Original Message- From: David Barak [mailto:thegame...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 8:25 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband - Original Message From: James Downs Except this is exactly

Re: Ready to get your federal computer license?

2009-08-28 Thread Scott Morris
I'm trying really hard to find my "paranoia hat", and just to relieve some boredom I read the entire bill to try to figure out where this was all coming from "(2) may declare a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic to and from any compromised Federal

RE: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-28 Thread Frank Bulk
Since the features/function/success of the service is so intimately tied to the control/maintenance of that last mile/alley/drop, how do the takers make sure they get what they need? Or that it uses the technology they want? It's an attractive idea from the surface, but one that erodes competitiv

Re: Ready to get your federal computer license?

2009-08-28 Thread Stefan
... this whole issue reminded me of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRmxXp62O8g and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrQUWUfmR_I On the more serious note: the vagueness of some terms and definitions is what concerns me, for example. I am not sure if the problem could be fixed, though, under a mec