22 Jul
2014
22 Jul
'14
4:10 p.m.
On Jul 22, 2014, at 12:04 , Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
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From: "Scott Helms" <khelms@zcorum.com>
I've done open access networks for several cities and _today_ the cleanest 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.
Yes; when we did this back in '12, that was my proposal: city handles layer 2 aggregation and the ONTs, and we'll hand you off 1q ethernet... or, if you really *want* to put gear in our rack room, we'll cross-connect you to the relevant fibers, and let you handle layer 2 yourself.
I'd be sort of OK with that approach, though I'd actually rather see the default reversed. Owen