On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Charles N Wyble wrote:
On 08/15/2011 10:14 PM, Jon Lewis wrote:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Graham Wooden wrote: If I understand your question, yes. We did this some time ago. Colo in various ILEC and CLEC central offices,
Um. Doesn't colo in various ILEC/CLEC CO == facilities based CLEC?
That depends on your definition of "facilities based". As a CLEC, we still depended entirely on the ILEC for T1 loops (installation, troubleshooting/repair, etc.).
Interesting. Can't you just ride the existing network between the CO locations? For a fee of course, but I would think it could be all ethernet based and just pay per mb or something?
Not if they're different ILECs / different LATAs. If you're in an AT&T CO in city A, and a Centurylink CO in city B, and an AT&T CO in city C, you're going to need a 3rd party, preferably with their own fiber, to connect all the POPs together or back to some central hub site where you have your internet connectivity. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis, MCP :) | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________