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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Selfish routing
On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 21:56:20 EDT, [email protected] said: > > > I live in rural America. I provide access for rural America. There is > > only one public exchange point close buy and it is over 100 miles from > > my nearest pop (and the exchange has it's own problems). Capacity from > > various networks is limited, and it can take over 6 months to get the > > carriers upgraded to handle a new OC3, much less OC-12 or gig-e. > > Why are you getting carriers to upgrade to handle OC-3 as opposite to > getting your own dark fiber and lighting it up? In 6 month they will build > you the 100 miles in nowhere. It is actually a lot more difficult to get > them to cross Park Avenue in Manhattan then it is to get fiber into rural > area. Umm.. Alex? There's places around the US that would make a fiber pull across Park Avenue look like a cakewalk. We're talking places that won't get a fiber pull because no company will lay 50 to 100 miles of fiber before having a *guarantee* of multiple customers to amortize the cost over. Wyoming/Idaho... Maine.. Appalachia.. http://www.ecorridors.vt.edu is what we're doing to try to fix the chicken-and-egg problem (basically, the same build-and-privatize model that we already used for http://www.bev.net and http://www.networkvirginia.net). http://www.ecorridors.vt.edu/papers/location/lenowisco/Demo%20Slide%20Show.pdf Go look at page 3, and ask yourself what provider in their right mind will start pulling dark cable to *THERE* - closest reasonable city is Knoxville TN at around 100 miles away. We're talking about places that make Blacksburg VA look like suburbs.. ;) On the other hand, if you're a provider that thinks this makes sense, let us know.. ;) Attachment:
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