RE: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

["Frank Bulk \(iname.com\)" <frnkblk () iname com>]

What's missing in this dialogue is the video component of an offering.  Many customers like a triple (or quad) play 
because the price points are reasonable comparable to getting unbundled pricing from more than one provider, and they 
have just throat to choke and bill to pay.

But few IP TV providers will claim good profitability.  And I don't believe any vendor has ActiveE and RFoG going down 
one strand.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Ashworth [mailto:jra () baylink com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 8:01 PM
To: NANOG
Subject: Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jean-Francois Mezei" <jfmezei_nanog () vaxination ca>

<snip>

> A good layer 2 deployment can support DHCP or PPPoE and thus be
> compatible with incumbents infrastructure. However, a good layer2
> deployment won't have "RFoG" support and will prefer IPTV over the data
> channel (the australian model supports multicast). So cable companies
> without IPTV services may be at a disadvantage.

I think this depends on what handoffs my TE can provide at the customer
prem.

> In Canada, Rogers (cableco) has announced that they plan to go all
> IPTV instead of conventional TV channels.

Well, the MythTV people will be happy to hear that.

Or they would, if the content people would quit holding a gun to the 
heads of the transport people.

Cheers,
-- jra
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