Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-01-30 Thread Art Plato
I am the administrator of a Municipally held ISP that has been providing services to our constituents for 15 years in a competitive environment with Charter. We aren't here to eliminate them, only to offer an alternative. When the Internet craze began back in the late 1990's they made it clear t

Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-01-30 Thread Art Plato
r pricing is available. - Pete On 01/30/2013 09:37 AM, Art Plato wrote: > I am the administrator of a Municipally held ISP that has been providing > services to our constituents for 15 years in a competitive environment with > Charter. We aren't here to eliminate them, only to

Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-01-30 Thread Art Plato
I guess I should have clarified. We are looking at an FTTP overbuild. Eventually eliminating the HFC. FTTP makes more sense long term. We are also the local electric utility. - Original Message - From: "Scott Helms" To: "Art Plato" Cc: "Peter Kristolaitis

Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-01-30 Thread Art Plato
Scott, Thanks for the warning. I am planning on having those dialogues with any potential vendors, as well as ask them for active references. Art. - Original Message - From: "Scott Helms" To: "Art Plato" Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 1:

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-30 Thread Art Plato
Although not technically private, this is where we see ourselves getting to if a good competitive environment fosters from the construction of the infrastructure. Again, we can't abandon our citizens to a one provider monopoly, but if a true competitive environment arose we would be quite conten

Re: The 100 Gbit/s problem in your network

2013-02-08 Thread Art Plato
How about buy the movies in question, convert them to MP4, install a media server on a local box and configure Xbox, tablet, smart-phone, whatever to access the media server? That is how my 3 year old grandson watches the Bubble Guppies movie umpteen million times during a 4 day stay. Just a tho

Re: Favorite GPON Vendor?

2015-11-09 Thread Art Plato
Brian, How complex is the troubleshooting side of the Adtran? We Use the Enablence Wave7 and getting any useful information from the CPE via the CLI is like pulling hens teeth. I have yet to see a way to view the actual throughput on the ethernet interfaces, only total bits passed, or the light

Re: Favorite GPON Vendor?

2015-11-10 Thread Art Plato
access to anything you'd want. -----Original Message- From: "Art Plato" Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 2:38pm To: Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Favorite GPON Vendor? Brian, How complex is the troubleshooting side of the Adtran? We Use the Enablence Wave7 and getting any u

Re: Cable Operator List

2016-02-02 Thread Art Plato
Don't believe they have a mailing list, but this is a good source for technical issues on the modem/cmts side. Very helpful forum. Pulled me out of the weeds a couple of times. www.docsis.org. - Original Message - From: "Benjamin Hatton" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2