Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

Wed Mar 14 01:31:15 UTC 2012

What is the SLA for FIOS? I believe that FIOS uses either PON or GPON
technology where a single data wavelength is split up to 32 times resulting
in a shared pipe back to the CO. Does Verizon offer any SLA at all for FIOS?

On the other hand Verizon Wireless offers BGP peering for business
customers, but lacks geographically-dispersed peering points with their
wired network, which results in unusually high round trip latencies.

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Justin M. Streiner <streiner at cluebyfour.org
> wrote:

> All:
>
> I realize this might be a bit of a fool's errand, but I'm trying to
> determine if Verizon will speak BGP with FiOS business customers.  Their
> website is relatively lean on details.  Everything that mentions BGP points
> to VZB services, which does not appear to include FiOS.  Looking at the
> routing table, I do see several non-VZ ASNs downstream of AS19262, so it
> looks like it might be possible.
>
> If that is the case, could anyone lend any insight to get past the "what
> is BGP?" response that likely awaits from their salescritters?
>
> jms
>
>