Subject: Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Date: Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 07:40:50AM +0200 Quoting Mark Tinka (mark.tinka@seacom.mu):
On Thursday, July 31, 2014 02:01:28 PM Måns Nilsson wrote:
It is better, both for the customer and the provider.
If the provider is able to deliver 1Gbps to every home (either on copper or fibre) with little to no uplink oversubscription (think 44x customer-facing Gig-E ports + 4x 10Gbps uplink ports), essentially, there is no limit to what services a provider and its partners can offer to its customers.
Oh, yes, there is. Multicast? IPv6? Both CAN be done, but probably won't. Dark fibre to CO is the only way to be sure. As long as that is possible, perhaps mandated by regulation, there's no major issue with providing a packaged service. In the end, though, if we get the quality of Internet access up to sensible levels (today minimum of a /56 and 100Mbit symmetric and no stupid peering wars ;-) there are few reasons not to bundle L1-L3. However, given the nature of monopolies and their tendency to underperform and overcharge, that is an optimisation dream... -- Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina MN-1334-RIPE +46 705 989668 Hello. Just walk along and try NOT to think about your INTESTINES being almost FORTY YARDS LONG!!