Re: Can the L1 provider offer L2 services?

[Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2013, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> That's orthogonal to the question as we discussed it before, though, 
> which is what I've adjusted the title to here: I don't see that there is 
> a bar to competition if a *municipal* L1 provider offers L2 service, as 
> long as they offer that service to all comers, at the same, published, 
> cost-recovery rates, including themselves.

I agree with this, *but* they should also offer L1 services. Most 
commonly, they end up doing L2 and then L1 isn't available.

The last people in Sweden to get IPv6 is most likely going to be the 
active municipality network customers, because they need to fix their 
stuff before the ISP can offer anything (this is because it's ethernet 
based on L2 and security functions need to exist in the L2 access 
equipment).

If someone says PPPoE is better because of this, please mind that these 
networks commonly offer speeds up to 500 megabit/s or 1gigabit/s per user. 
:P

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se