Re: The scale of streaming video on the Internet.

2010-12-02 Thread Scott Helms
number of years to get that work fairly well in telco environments. The content that can't be handled with multicast, like on demand programming, is where you lose your economy of scale. -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ISP Alliance, Inc. DBA ZCorum (678) 507-5000 --

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Scott Helms
ss to their customers. I've seen them repeatedly state that they feel networks who send them too much traffic are "abusing their network". -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ISP Alliance, Inc. DBA ZCorum (678) 507-5000 Looking for hand-sele

Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?

2011-01-12 Thread Scott Helms
Same results as NAT. NAT != security. Stateful inspection = some security. Next!! Owen -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ISP Alliance, Inc. DBA ZCorum (678) 507-5000 Looking for hand-selected news, views and tips for independent broadband provide

Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?

2011-01-12 Thread Scott Helms
e upon a time, Scott Helms said: Few home users have a stateful firewall configured Yes, they do. NAT requires a stateful firewall. Why is that so hard to understand? -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ISP Alliance, Inc. DBA ZCorum (678) 507-5000 Looki

Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?

2011-01-12 Thread Scott Helms
ward is often 4 to 6 in the home and I expect that to be dirt common for very long time in the future. On 1/12/2011 3:37 PM, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article, Scott Helms wrote: Few home users have a stateful firewall configured and AFAIK none of the consumer models come with a good

Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?

2011-01-12 Thread Scott Helms
this certainly isn't an exhaustive test, but it tested the devices we needed checked. If someone knows of a model that does block incoming (non-established TCP) traffic by default I'd like to know about it. That's especially true of combo DSL modem routers. -- Scott Hel

Re: FTTH ONTs and routers

2014-05-15 Thread Scott Helms
unheard of for another. Making generalizations about G/EPON gear is very hard right now and its worse for the older standards like BPON. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms ---

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3)

2014-05-15 Thread Scott Helms
ators will sell more than a few (perhaps just one) top priority in a given a category. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Christopher Mor

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3)

2014-05-15 Thread Scott Helms
US have any sort of intelligent fair usage buffering provided by the service provider. This is true for both cable, telco, and other operators. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms -

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP Network Neutrality

2014-05-15 Thread Scott Helms
l customer agreement spell out, in every example I've seen, realistic terms and expectations for service and those are very different from peering arrangements. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http:

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP

2014-05-15 Thread Scott Helms
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > > So by extension, if you enter an agreement and promise to remain > balanced y= > > ou can just willfully throw that out and abuse the heck out of it? Where > do= > > es it end? Why even bother having peering policies at all then? > > It doesn'

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP

2014-05-16 Thread Scott Helms
Social media is not a big driver of symmetrical traffic here in the US or internationally. Broadband suffers here for a number of reasons, mainly topological and population density, in comparison to places like Japan, parts (but certainly not all) of Europe, and South Korea. Scott Helms Vice

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP

2014-05-16 Thread Scott Helms
ss traffic than those that stream audio and video." https://www.sandvine.com/downloads/general/global-internet-phenomena/2013/sandvine-global-internet-phenomena-report-1h-2013.pdf Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP

2014-05-16 Thread Scott Helms
asically zero. There is no expectation that back ups run instantly. Having said all of that, even if hosted back up became wildly popular would not change the balance of power because OTT video is both larger, especially for HD streams, and used much more frequently. Scott Helms Vice President o

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP

2014-05-16 Thread Scott Helms
for a normal residential package. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Blake Hudson wrote: > Certainly video is one of the most bandwid

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3)

2014-05-16 Thread Scott Helms
By this logic restaurants should be massively over built so that there is never a waiting line, highways should always be a speed limit ride, and all of these things would cost much more money than they do today. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP

2014-05-16 Thread Scott Helms
cal bandwidth to all consumers just so those few customers who need it today would have lower bills but trying to justify that to our CFO without being able to point to an increase in revenue either because of more revenue per sub or more subs is a very tough task. I don't believe my situation is unc

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3)

2014-05-16 Thread Scott Helms
I understand it but that's no different from unlimited telephone service, all you can eat buffets, or just about anywhere else you can see the word "unlimited" or all in marketing. I'd also like to see much more competition in the market and that's one the things I work to a

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP

2014-05-16 Thread Scott Helms
erent contract? Why was Cogent able to maintain (roughly) symmetrical traffic with Comcast when they were the primary path for Netflix to Comcast users? Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms -

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP

2014-05-16 Thread Scott Helms
Matthew, There is a difference between what should be philosophically and what happened with Level 3 which is a contractual issue. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms On

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP

2014-05-16 Thread Scott Helms
first generations (g.lite and g.dmt). Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Mark Tinka wrote: > On Friday, May 16, 2014 05:35:39 PM Jay

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3)

2014-05-16 Thread Scott Helms
r the last 3 years) is about 0.2%. Interestingly if a customer does it once they have about a 70% chance of doing it regularly. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms On Fri, M

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3)

2014-05-16 Thread Scott Helms
s and many are well into the double digits. My current connection (tested this morning) is about 22 mbps. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 4:

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3)

2014-05-16 Thread Scott Helms
less than 400 kbps at peak and averages something like 150 kbps. http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/08/iphone-facetime-bandwidth-gets-measured/ Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/k

Re: CMTS/Public Wifi provisioning question

2014-05-29 Thread Scott Helms
>From talking to folks involved with http://www.cablewifi.com/ and Comcast support there is a separate service flow for the public SSID. I have yet to configure that in the lab, but it sounds like a good project :) Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-11 Thread Scott Helms
, and have never considered getting an ASN because it doesn't do anything for them. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Matthew Petac

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-11 Thread Scott Helms
the tier 1 ISP individually. There have been many attempts at creating networks that provide that kind of service but the economics are often bad. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/k

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-11 Thread Scott Helms
ng an ASN does _not_ make you an ISP as most of the organizations that have one are not, nor would they class themselves that way. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms On Fr

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-11 Thread Scott Helms
view of what an ISP is in an eyeball network context and that view is inaccurate. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Matthew Petach wrote:

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-14 Thread Scott Helms
look to be the most likely in no real order. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Benson Schliesser wrote: > Thanks for adding thi

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-14 Thread Scott Helms
with Internet access. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Matthew Petach wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 1:42 PM, George Herbert

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Scott Helms
lable. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Matthew Petach wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Scott Helms wrote: > > > Matt

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Scott Helms
months to be able to buy bandwidth from anyone because there is no remaining capacity on the SONET network and no other operator has any physical facilities in the area. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 -

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Scott Helms
absolute rights to the frequencies they're using. If you want to know vendors that supply the gear, since most of the BWA guys haven't grabbed it yet, let me know and I'll send what I have off list. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 --

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-16 Thread Scott Helms
n 214(e) Declaratory Ruling)." That was once a requirement that kept most WISPs from being able to participate, but is no longer. I don't personally see a large hurdle for WISPs in the federal language and I work with 4 I know of that have ETC status in 3 different states. Scott Helms Vice

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-21 Thread Scott Helms
n into some problems because the total speed on a GPON port is asymmetrical, about 2.5 gbps down to 1.25 gbps up. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 1

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-21 Thread Scott Helms
itive to public <--> private competition but in cases where there is already a monopoly or even worse no broadband service I can't see how keeping muni's out helps consumers. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-21 Thread Scott Helms
that this is a good because it helps with the Netflix flap, but drawing causality between their prior asymmetrical offering and the way they went after transit is a mistake IMO. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-21 Thread Scott Helms
Bill, I'd say your experience is anomalous. I don't know which township you're in, but I'd suggest you focus on getting a set of more effective local officials. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twi

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-21 Thread Scott Helms
Bill, If your issues are common in your town then getting the attention of city/town hall ought to be pretty damn easy, I've had to do so myself. If its just your neighborhood it still ought not be very hard. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-22 Thread Scott Helms
Isn't it interesting how that coincides with pay per bit (for the most part) pricing. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Ca By

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-22 Thread Scott Helms
anest situations by far (that I've seen) had the city handling layer 1 and 2 with the layer 2 hand off being Ethernet regardless of the access technology used. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/k

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-22 Thread Scott Helms
7;t have a telco quality wiring center in place already and where cities have the resources to build one the market usually doesn't need them to. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms --

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-22 Thread Scott Helms
ing wiring centers and central offices, the cities have never had this need and most don't have a suitable building (power, cooling, and security) that isn't already occupied. That's why its _much_ easier to let the ISPs bring in some fiber and let them hold all their gear at their site

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-22 Thread Scott Helms
How that happens very few consumers actually care about. What they do care about is the city saying we have to raise $300,000 extra dollars in bond money to build a new facility to house the ISPs who might want to collocate with us. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-22 Thread Scott Helms
st because your TDR doesn't see a reflection does not mean you have a clean path. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Mikael Abrahamss

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-22 Thread Scott Helms
I'll be there when I see it can be done practically in the US. I agree with you from a philosophical standpoint, but I don't see it being there yet. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/k

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread Scott Helms
That's not an excuse, its simply the political reality here in the US. There is a narrow place band on the size scale for a municipality where its politically acceptable in most places AND there is a true gap in coverage. In nearly all of the larger areas, though there are some exceptions, there

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread Scott Helms
-connections-going-underground Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Scott Helms wrote: &g

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread Scott Helms
r distance covered but more homes and businesses connected or the cabling being ready for connection (ie homes passed). Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms On Wed, Jul 23,

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-23 Thread Scott Helms
The problem is marketing/spin/lobbying is both cheaper and more effective in most scenarios. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Rich

Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Helms
many/most enterprises and the thought of trying to explain sub-par networking to most business leaders makes my teeth hurt. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ISP Alliance, Inc. DBA ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms

Re: dynamic or static IPv6 prefixes to residential customers

2011-08-02 Thread Scott Helms
ernal networking is going to be very hard to educate past given that most users are comfortable with how it works today. -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ISP Alliance, Inc. DBA ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms

Re: dynamic or static IPv6 prefixes to residential customers

2011-08-02 Thread Scott Helms
oes that should get their own PI space and multihome. Why would they do anything else? Owen I thought we were talking about residential users specifically here... -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ISP Alliance, Inc. DBA ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms

Re: FTTH CPE landscape

2011-08-04 Thread Scott Helms
or DOCSIS) will/can handle layer 2 isolation already. -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ISP Alliance, Inc. DBA ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms

Re: FTTH CPE landscape

2011-08-05 Thread Scott Helms
to. Owen -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ISP Alliance, Inc. DBA ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms

Re: FTTH CPE landscape

2011-08-05 Thread Scott Helms
en 30% for business accounts. I have visibility into access networks around North America which gives me a sample size that is far larger than required for statistical significance. -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ISP Alliance, Inc. DBA ZCorum (678) 507

Re: FTTH CPE landscape

2011-08-05 Thread Scott Helms
router is TR-069). -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ISP Alliance, Inc. DBA ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms

Re: US internet providers hijacking users' search queries

2011-08-06 Thread Scott Helms
user behavior of searching in the address bar has become more common place, and browser behavior to try and resolve first, fallback to search for the same input field has both trained the humans to keep doing this and made it possible for DNS query interlopers to appear to be generic-search int

Re: US internet providers hijacking users' search queries

2011-08-06 Thread Scott Helms
. " http://www.icir.org/christian/publications/2011-satin-netalyzr.pdf http://newswire.xbiz.com/view.php?id=137208 -- -JH -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ISP Alliance, Inc. DBA ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms

Re: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-10 Thread Scott Helms
ctually do it in a meaningful and sufficiently automatic way as to be applicable to Joe 6-Mac. -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ISP Alliance, Inc. DBA ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms

Re: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-10 Thread Scott Helms
Tim Chown wrote: On 10 Aug 2011, at 16:11, Scott Helms wrote: Neither of these are true, though in the future we _might_ have deployable technology that allows for automated routing setup (though I very seriously doubt it) in the home. Layer 2 isolation is both easier and more reliable than a

Re: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-11 Thread Scott Helms
the phone calls when users start to discover that /56s were not enough. Owen On Aug 10, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Scott Helms wrote: Tim, Hence the "might". I worry when people start throwing around terms like routing in the home that they don't understand the complexities of balanci

Re: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-11 Thread Scott Helms
via DHCPv6-PD. What is a CPE head-end router? That seems like an oxymoron. Where would such an animal live, in the home or the head end/central office? Who is responsible for purchasing it and managing it in your mind? Owen On Aug 11, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Scott Helms wrote: Owen, Th

Re: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-12 Thread Scott Helms
On 8/11/2011 6:09 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Aug 11, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Scott Helms wrote: On 8/11/2011 5:28 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: You're talking about the front end residential gateway that you manage. I'm talking about the various gateways and things you might not yet expect

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

2013-01-30 Thread Scott Helms
ectric utility. > > ____ > From: "Scott Helms" > To: "Art Plato" > Cc: "Peter Kristolaitis" , nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 1:15:40 PM > Subject: Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard? > > I&#x

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-01-31 Thread Scott Helms
> j...@baylink.com > Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274 > -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-01-31 Thread Scott Helms
't wait for Telcordia to try to sue them over the prefix. >> >> Cheers, >> -- jra >> -- >> Jay R. Ashworth Baylink >> j...@baylink.com >> Designer The Things I Think RFC >

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-01-31 Thread Scott Helms
o be a Layer-2-available guy, cause I think it lets > smaller > >> players play. Does your position (likely more deeply thought out than > >> mine) permit Layer 2 with Muni ONT and Ethernet handoff, as long as > clients > >> are *also* permitted to get a Layer 1 patch to a provider in

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-01-31 Thread Scott Helms
city or neighborhood or whatever to an > independent MMR, I don't believe there's any reason you couldn't > cross-connect > various users home-run fibers to splitter/combiners inside the MMR and then > run that to a PON system (if you really wanted to for some reason). &g

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-01-31 Thread Scott Helms
at 4:36 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Jan 31, 2013, at 13:27 , Scott Helms wrote: > > Owen, > > You can't share access from one splitter to multiple OLTs so the location > of the splitter isn't important. AFAIK there is simply no concept for that > idea in any of t

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-01-31 Thread Scott Helms
nt, but I am hoping you will turn up > more examples.) > > > I don't know of any. Yes, it would eliminate part of the theoretical cost > savings of the PON architecture, but the point is that it would provide a > technology agnostic last mile infrastructure that could easily be

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-01 Thread Scott Helms
re is a good document that describes the problem in some detail: http://www.ofsoptics.com/press_room/media-pdfs/FTTH-Prism-0909.pdf Also, here is a proposed spec that would allow for longer runs post splitter with some background on why it can't work in today's GPON deployments.

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-01 Thread Scott Helms
of where the splitter is placed in > the equation. Distance x loss + splitter insertion loss = total loss for > purposes of link budget calculation. > > The reason to push splitters towards the customer end is financial, not > technical. > > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-02 Thread Scott Helms
Bit > > fiber mesh, using L3 switches in DSLAMs on every street corner? > > Well, one reason is that, IMHO, the goal here is to provide a flexible > L1 platform that will allow multiple competing providers a low barrier > to entry to provide a multitude of competitive services. > &

Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

2013-02-02 Thread Scott Helms
d will require sufficient time to come to > fruition. > > > I wrote this as a summary for all the helpful NANOGers who chimed in this > week, and as a clarification for those who weren't quite sure where *I* > was trying to go -- all muni builds are sui generis, and this one m

Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

2013-02-02 Thread Scott Helms
ow what GPON is and have no gear to terminate that kind of connection. On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Scott Helms" > > > Why on earth would you do this with PON instead of active Ethernet? > > Wha

Fwd: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

2013-02-02 Thread Scott Helms
7;t as mature when they started. Verizon's approach may be what someone was thinking of when they said that PON was compatible to cable signaling but that's not how it works. > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink > j...@baylink.com > Designer

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-02 Thread Scott Helms
protocols. On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Feb 2, 2013, at 12:07 PM, Scott Helms wrote: > > Owen, > > A layer 1 architecture isn't going to be an economical option for the > foreseeable future so opining on its value is a waste of time...its simp

Re: Fwd: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

2013-02-02 Thread Scott Helms
That's one of the reasons to look at active ethernet over gpon. There is much more of a chance to do v6 on that gear, especially cisco's Metro ethernet switches. On Feb 2, 2013 5:27 PM, "Brandon Ross" wrote: > On Sat, 2 Feb 2013, Scott Helms wrote: > > I'd al

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-02 Thread Scott Helms
y ANY > provider for ANY service, or as close to that as possible. > > To make the offering more attractive to low-budget providers, the system > may also incorporate some L2 services. > > Owen > > On Feb 2, 2013, at 1:31 PM, Scott Helms wrote: > > Owen, > > C

Re: Followup: Small City Municipal Broadband

2013-02-02 Thread Scott Helms
ugh; I note you didn't > throw a flag at that, or at Akamai; is the IPTV issue different to you? > > Fair point. > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink > j...@baylink.com > Designer The Things I Think

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-02 Thread Scott Helms
e long > > term is much greater than the cost of initial gear and fiber install. > > Depends on what you're trying to do. But yes, I do know the difference > between CAPEX and OPEX. > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-02 Thread Scott Helms
at I'm trying to tell you can't do. Its more expensive in > > both the initial and long term costs. > > I can see 'initial', maybe, but if I reduce the utility of the field > network by putting active equipment in it, then I've already raised the > OPEX, substantially, as well as reducing the intrinsic value of that > network. > I think you're vastly overestimating the desire that customers have for a bare fiber. Having said that, your community may be different from what I've experienced. > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink > j...@baylink.com > Designer The Things I Think RFC > 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land > Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 > 1274 > > -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms

Re: Fwd: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

2013-02-02 Thread Scott Helms
Jason, Yeah, that's what I figured. There are lots of older PON deployments that used the modulated RF approach. On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Jason Baugher wrote: > > On Feb 2, 2013 3:33 PM, "Scott Helms" wrote: > > > .. > > > This is not corr

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-02-02 Thread Scott Helms
ves that to 7-8%. The fiber has a life of 40-80 years, and > thus adding high count is cheaper than doing low count with GPON. > > Existing builds are optimizing to avoid sending out the backhoe and > directional boring machine. New builds, or extreme forward thinking > builds are try

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-02 Thread Scott Helms
ce you can extend your ring when you need. > > > > -- >Leo Bicknell - bickn...@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 > PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ > -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-02 Thread Scott Helms
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 10:17:24PM -0500, Scott Helms > wrote: > > Here's the thing, over the time frame your describing you're probably > going > > to have to look at more fiber runs just

Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

2013-02-03 Thread Scott Helms
strand as ActiveE? > > Frank > > -Original Message- > From: Scott Helms [mailto:khe...@zcorum.com] > Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 3:30 PM > To: NANOG > Subject: Fwd: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband > > > But it doesn't matter either way, ex

Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

2013-02-03 Thread Scott Helms
facilities provider will charge them > to fix it. > > There would be no "just coming out of the wall". There would be a 6-12 > SC (FC?) connector patch panel in a small plastic enclosure, with the > outside plant properly secured (conduit, in the wall, etc) and not > expos

Re: muni L1 example (WAS: Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?)

2013-02-03 Thread Scott Helms
or so: > http://www.ifcirca.net/ > > When I last had network in the area, the cost was on the order of: >- $1500/month/loop >- $20/bldg on loop >- one-time construction costs > > > -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-03 Thread Scott Helms
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Feb 2, 2013, at 5:06 PM, Scott Helms wrote: > > Owen, > I think the confusion I have is that you seem to want to create solutions > for problems that have already been solved. There is no cost effective > method of

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-03 Thread Scott Helms
of fiber connections in Europe is quite low. > > Owen > > -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms

Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

2013-02-03 Thread Scott Helms
at 14:39, Scott Helms wrote: > > > Dry pairs are impossible to order these days for a reason. > > Dry pairs are trivial to order round these parts. Generalisations are > always wrong, no doubt including this one. > > > Joe (putting the N back in NANOG) -- Scott Hel

Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

2013-02-03 Thread Scott Helms
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Scott Helms" > > > > Basically when the customer (typically the service provider, but > > > not always) orders a loop to a customer the muni provider would >

Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

2013-02-03 Thread Scott Helms
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 02:39:39PM -0500, Scott Helms > wrote: > > > Basically when the customer (typically the service provider, but > > > not always) orders a loop to a customer the muni provide

Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

2013-02-03 Thread Scott Helms
blic companies, and had open access imposed on them > (some would say unfairly; I waver), and it's *expected* that this would > be the case, but still... > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink > j...@baylink.com > Designer The Things I Think RFC > 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land > Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 > 1274 > > -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms

Re: muni L1 example (WAS: Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?)

2013-02-03 Thread Scott Helms
lly for DOCSIS systems). 4) They get their pricing "right". This last point is perhaps the most important but hardest to do well. -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms

Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks?

2013-02-03 Thread Scott Helms
al rings) of Ethernet with nodes that then connect down to the neighborhood level. > > -- >Leo Bicknell - bickn...@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 > PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ > -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-03 Thread Scott Helms
s receiving packets. > > Mark > -- > Mark Andrews, ISC > 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia > PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org > -- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 http://twitter.com/kscotthelms

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