nanog mailing list archives
Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks?
From: Scott Helms <khelms () zcorum com>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 16:15:07 -0500
Rural deployments present an entirely different problem of geography. I suspect the dark fiber model I advocate for is appropriate for 80% of the population from large cities to small towns; but for the 20% in truely rural areas it doesn't work and there is no cheap option as far as I can tell.
Why do you want a muni to put in fiber but not light it? Wouldn't it make more sense to simply put in fiber runs and let company's lease space? Trenches don't really degrade over time and there is a lot less of a requirement for cooperative troubleshooting and far less blame game.
Which is a big part of why I want municipalities to finance it on 10-30 year government bonds, rather than try and have BigTelco and BigCableCo raise capital on wall street to do the job.
I certainly sympathize with wanting independent connections but most cities have their own budget concerns and doing a bond on a fiber network they can't or don't light is a harder pay back on one that they do light. I'd suggest either layer 2 sharing (ethernet with per sub VLANs) or trench sharing as above.
-- Leo Bicknell - bicknell () ufp org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
-- Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 -------------------------------- http://twitter.com/kscotthelms --------------------------------
Current thread:
- Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks?, (continued)
- Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks? Masataka Ohta (Feb 04)
- Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks? Jay Ashworth (Feb 03)
- Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks? Leo Bicknell (Feb 03)
- RE: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks? Frank Bulk (Feb 03)
- Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks? Jean-Francois Mezei (Feb 03)
- Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks? Leo Bicknell (Feb 04)
- Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks? Jay Ashworth (Feb 04)
- Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks? Matthew Petach (Feb 04)
- Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks? Jay Ashworth (Feb 04)
- Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks? Matthew Petach (Feb 04)
- Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks? Leo Bicknell (Feb 03)
- Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks? Scott Helms (Feb 04)