How far must muni fiber operators protect ISP competition?

Tue Feb 5 17:45:04 UTC 2013

Jay,

On the data side that's certainly possible, but the content guys won't play
ball on a shared L2 network.  This actually undermines my position on how
to architect your system, but sharing anything from one of the big content
guys isn't something I've seen them allow as of yet.  Organizations like
TVN(Avail now?) or NCTC also require direct agreements and I've never seen
them do anything at an aggregation level.

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Scott Helms" <khelms at zcorum.com>
>
> > On the video side or the total data project? Both?
>
> "The point of open fiber is to level the competitive marketplace as
> much as possible for provider.  Which approach better services that
> goal: telling them all about all the providers who might make their
> services more complete, or not doing so?"
>
> Whether we provide shared space, treating such providers as other
> clients, and tying them all through an IX switch, is a subsidiary
> issue.
>
> Cheers
> -- jra
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