FCC Takes Steps to Enforce Quality Standards for Rural Broadband

Mon Nov 4 22:36:53 UTC 2019

I heard that we would be testing to Dallas or something like that from my ISP in San Antonio.

I think I heard that customer CPE routers will soon have that testing functionality built into them.

-Aaron

From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Livingood, Jason
Sent: Monday, November 4, 2019 1:23 PM
To: Bill Woodcock; North American Network Operators' Group
Subject: Re: FCC Takes Steps to Enforce Quality Standards for Rural Broadband

I do not. But in the FCC’s Measuring Broadband America program (MBA) they have SamKnows measurement servers located in a few places so perhaps that is what they mean? See https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/reports/measuring-broadband-america/measuring-fixed-broadband-eighth-report which says “The measurement servers were hosted by M-Lab and Level 3 Communications, and were located in ten cities across the United States near a point of interconnection between the ISP’s network and the network on which the measurement server resided.” In the newest (in process) report I believe they also added StackPath. 

Jason

From: NANOG <nanog-bounces at nanog.org> on behalf of Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net>
Date: Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 11:58 PM
To: Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com>, North American Network Operators' Group <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: FCC Takes Steps to Enforce Quality Standards for Rural Broadband

On Oct 31, 2019, at 6:42 PM, Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
There is just so much I want to make sarcastic comments about, but I worry about offending future potential employers (all of them).
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-takes-steps-enforce-quality-standards-rural-broadband-0

"The Bureaus required ETCs to perform speed and latency tests from the customer premises of an active subscriber to a remote test server located at or reached by passing through an FCC-designated Internet Exchange Point (IXP) and set a daily test period (requiring carriers to conduct tests between 6:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. local time) for such tests.”

Anybody have a reference for the “FCC-designated IXPs?”  And what distinguishes them from the actual set of IXPs?

                                -Bill

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