Jay, On the data side that's certainly possible, but the content guys won't play ball on a shared L2 network. This actually undermines my position on how to architect your system, but sharing anything from one of the big content guys isn't something I've seen them allow as of yet. Organizations like TVN(Avail now?) or NCTC also require direct agreements and I've never seen them do anything at an aggregation level. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
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From: "Scott Helms" <khelms@zcorum.com>
On the video side or the total data project? Both?
"The point of open fiber is to level the competitive marketplace as much as possible for provider. Which approach better services that goal: telling them all about all the providers who might make their services more complete, or not doing so?"
Whether we provide shared space, treating such providers as other clients, and tying them all through an IX switch, is a subsidiary issue.
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