Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

Sun Feb 3 20:40:13 UTC 2013

I answered (I think) your other points in the last email I wrote, but I
> wanted to address these specifically.
>
> I believe that Sweden operates largely on this model and that the Australia
> NBN project does as well.
>
> I would say that the Swedish model is a definite success.
>

Australia's NBN is still the planning and arguing phase.  Sweden is most
certainly not a string of muni networks, the dominant form of access there
is cable without open access.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Sweden

You might have meant another European country and there are several that
traditionally have had good open access networks but they are NOT fiber nor
are they muni run.  Across much of Europe the telco's have been forced to
open their DSL networks to other operators and in many countries they
cannot be the layer 3 provider.  This has lead to a robust set of open DSL
networks using PPPoE.  The problem is that the same rules have NOT been
applied to fiber networks (in large part because of technical issues, some
genuine and others less so).  The fiber networks are largely run by the
telcos themselves, but these are new deployments and so the numbers of
fiber connections in Europe is quite low.

>
> Owen
>
>

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