In an organization as large as Verizon there are many reasons why a policy gets changed. I'm certain that there are product guys who were saying our customers want this. I'm sure there were marketing folks saying we can build a marketing campaign around it. I am equally certain that some there were some folks, perhaps lawyers, who said this gives us a better position to argue from if we need to against Netflix. I'll be watching to see how well this roll out goes. If they didn't re-engineer their splits (or plan for symmetrical from the beginning) they could run into some problems because the total speed on a GPON port is asymmetrical, about 2.5 gbps down to 1.25 gbps up. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 -------------------------------- http://twitter.com/kscotthelms -------------------------------- On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
Is anyone else cynical enough to say FiOS going symmetrical is an attempt to blunt the pro-NetFlix argument on that point? - jra
On July 21, 2014 12:46:27 PM EDT, Jason Iannone <jason.iannone@gmail.com> wrote:
There was a muni case in my neck of the woods a couple of years ago. Comcast spent an order of magnitude more than the municipality but still lost.
Anyway, follow the money. "Blackburn’s largest career donors are .. PACs affiliated with AT&T ... ($66,750) and Comcast ... ($36,600). ... Blackburn has also taken $56,000 from the National Cable & Telecommunications Association."
http://www.muninetworks.org/content/media-roundup-blackburn-amendment-lights...
In other news, FIOS has gone symmetrical.
http://newscenter.verizon.com/corporate/news-articles/2014/07-21-fios-upload...
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
Over the last decade, 19 states have made it illegal for municipalities to own fiber networks -- encouraged largely, I am told, by Verizon and other cable companies/MSOs[1].
Verizon, of course, isn't doing any new FiOS deployments, per a 2010 press release[2].
FCC Chair Tom Wheeler has been making noises lately that he wants the FCC to preempt the field on this topic, making such deployments legal.
Congressional Republicans think that's a bad idea:
http://www.vox.com/2014/7/20/5913363/house-republicans-and-obamas-fcc-are-at...
[ and here's the backgrounder on the amendment:
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/blackburn-bill-would-block-...
]
While I generally try to avoid bringing up topics on NANOG that are
this one seems to be directly in our wheelhouse, and unavoidably
political; political.
My apologies in advance; let's all try to be grownups, shall we?
Cheers, -- jra
[1]
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hundreds-of-cities-are-wired-with-fiberbut-...
[2]
https://secure.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Again-Confirms-FiOS-Expansion...
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