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From: "Jean-Francois Mezei" <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
Something to consider about dark fibre L1 service: If city lets Service Providers perform installations (string from telephone pole to homes etc), you need to worry about damages they can cause. And in cases when customer unsubscribes from SP-1 and subscribes to SP-2 you have to make sure that SP-1 doesn't damage the termination of the fibre in the home to make installation by SP-2 harder/costlier.
You're still not getting it. And I'm not sure if it's on purpose or not. But I've been pretty clear: Home run from each prem to an MDF. City employes do all M-A-C patch cable moves on the MDF, to horizontals into the colo, where the provider's gear aggregates it from L1 to whatever. No aerial plant at all, no multple provider runs to the prems. That's most of the point here. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@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