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From: "Brandon Ross" <bross@pobox.com>
On Sat, 2 Feb 2013, Jay Ashworth wrote:
Available Providers.
The City, remember, won't be doing L3, so we'd need to find someone who was doing that. You know how big a job it is to be a cable company?
I would think in this model that the city would be prohibited from providing those services.
That is what I just said, yes, Brandon: the City would offer L1 optical home-run connectivity and optional L2 transport and aggregation with Ethernet provider hand-off, and nothing at any higher layers.
Perhaps I live in a different world, but just about all of the small to midsize service providers I work with offer triple play today, and nearly all of them are migrating their triple play services to IP.
Really. Citations? I'd love to see it play that way, myself.
If rural telco in Alabama or Mississippi can deliver triple play, surely a larger provider somewhere like NYC can do as well, no?
Well, I ain't no NYC, but... :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274