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From: "Jay Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
It's about 3 square miles, and has about 8000 passings, the majority of which are single or double family residential; a sprinkling of multi-tenant, about a dozen city facilities, and a bunch of retail multi-unit business.
I was musing, off-list, as to why there isn't a Mad-Lib you can just plug some numbers into and get within, say, 40% or so of your target costs for a given design. Well, http://www.ftthcommunitytoolkit.wikispaces.net isn't it, but it does have a bunch of useful information for this project, looks like. A couple of clarifying points: 1) I had posited GPON as I assumed that was where most of the CATV over FTTH hardware work was, vice FiOS. Turns out there's lots of hardware for IPTV as well, and quite a number of smaller deployments, so apparently that path is easier than I thought. The only difference is cross-connect fiber counts, and possibly some link budget. 2) I was planning to provide an IX switch in my colo, so all my L3 providers could short-circuit traffic to my *other* providers through it, unloading my uplinks. 3) Given that, I suppose I could put Limelight and Akamai racks in there, and couple them to the IX switch as well, policies permitting. 4) Given what a pisser it's going to be to get tags to me on the local backbone loops (about 3 are with 5 miles of my city border), I'm also considering having a 10G or 2 hauled in from each of 2 backbones, and reselling those to my L3 providers (again at cost recovery pricing), while not precluding any provider wanting to haul in their own uplink from doing so. 5) There's a possiblity my college campus may be on I2 (or want to); perhaps I can facilitate that as well -- and possible (again, policies permitting) extend such connections to relevant staff members or students who live in the city) (I'm not as familiar with I2 as I should be). 6) And pursuant to 3, perhaps I could even set up the IPTV service and resell that to the L3 provider to bundle with their IP service, so they don't have to do it themselves; while it's not a difficult as I had gathered, it's still harder than them doing VoIP as part of their own triple-play. 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