On 13-02-02 23:17, Jay Ashworth wrote:
Home run from each prem to an MDF. City employes do all M-A-C patch cable moves on the MDF, to horizontals into the colo, where the provider's gear aggregates it from L1 to whatever.
No aerial plant at all, no multple provider runs to the prems.
Not talking about MDF/CO/MMR or whatever you call the aggregation point. While you've made it clear that you don't let Service Providers play around in that aggregation point, you didn't define (or perhaps I missed it) the responsabilities for work at homes. When municipality does the buildout, does it just pass homes, or does it actually connect every home ? When "passing homes", you would generally have pre-built taps such as Corning FlexNAPs along the cable so that a strand can be added quickly between the tap at telephone pole and the home wanting to get service. You only connect homes that subscribe to your service. (so you have to decide who is responsible for stringing fibre from telephone pole to the home when end user subscribes to a Service Provider's services. Not entirely sure what sort of methods they use when it is an underground cable plant. (perhaps more likely to see fibre brought to each home during the dig, perhaps not). In any event, you still have to worry about responsability if you allow Service Providers to install their on ONT or whatever CPE equipment in homes. If they damage the fibre cable when customer unsubscribes, who is responsible for the costs of repair ? (consider a case where either homeowner or SP just cuts the fibre as it comes out of wall when taking the ONT out to be returned to the SP. In Canada, the wholesale regime gives the owner of the cable plant (telco or cableco) responsibility for all installs even for independent ISPs. However, independent ISPs are responsible for providing approved modems to their customers. (different for VDSL where the telco provides the modems even for custoemrs of indy ISPs since the modems are customized to work with the VDSL DSLAMS selected by the telcos). In the case of cable companies, they have a list of approved DOCIS modems they allow independent ISPs to sell to teir customers. We'll see in the next few months what will transpire for a wholesale FTTH access in terms of responsabilities for CPE equipment (ONT, battery backup etc).