It's a matter of economies of scale. If everyone has to light their own fiber, you haven't saved that much. If the fiber is lit, at L2, and charged back on a cost-recovery basis, then there are tremendous economies of scale. The examples that come to mind are campus and corporate networks. Miles Fidelman Jay Ashworth wrote:
From: "Leo Bicknell" <bicknell@ufp.org> I am a big proponent of muni-owned dark fiber networks. I want to be 100% clear about what I advocate here:
- Muni-owned MMR space, fiber only, no active equipment allowed. A big cross connect room, where the muni-fiber ends and providers are all allowed to colocate their fiber term on non-discriminatory terms. - 4-6 strands per home, home run back to the muni-owned MMR space. No splitters, WDM, etc, home run glass. Terminating on an optical handoff inside the home. Hmmm. I tend to be a Layer-2-available guy, cause I think it lets smaller
----- Original Message ----- players play. Does your position (likely more deeply thought out than mine) permit Layer 2 with Muni ONT and Ethernet handoff, as long as clients are *also* permitted to get a Layer 1 patch to a provider in the fashion you suggest?
(I concur with your 3-pair delivery, which makes this more practical on an M-A-C basis, even if it might require some users to have multiple ONTs...)
Cheers, -- jra
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