[1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe CIP High Speed Internet Project

[John Osmon]

The telephone system got us to think that the wire/fiber and the service
are the same thing.  In reality there is always at least 3 services
being provided:
   1- physical infrastructure (fiber and/or copper)
   2- aggregation/switching (DSL, DOCIS, ethernet, radio, and even dial-up)
   3- Internet service

There is no reason to expect that all 3 layers will be provided by
the same companies.  In dial-up and early DSL days, your phone company
supplied layers 1 & 2, and you picked who you wanted for layer 3.  
Now, all the ISPs want to supply all 3 layers -- it gives them more
control of the consumer.

So, when you ask: "when can I get fiber to my house and for how much?"
you need to realize that this initiative supplies layers 1 (fiber) and
layer 2 (ethernet bandwidth) -- but layer 3 is still up grabs.

Personally, I think this is the best possible deal for the consumer, but
we need to get as many ISPs invovled as possible to give the consumer 
the greatest choice over the super cool fiber inrastructure.

Give this some time.  Done right, there will be a lot of people looking
at it and saying, "Hey!  I want *that*!"




On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:40:22AM -0600, Tom Johnson wrote:
>    OK.  So when can I get fiber to my house and for how much?
> 
>    -tj
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>    On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Richard Lowenberg <[4]rl at 1st-mile.org>
>    wrote:
> 
>      Following City Council approval on Feb. 26^th, the City and  Cyber Mesa
>      Telecom, Inc., a locally owned CLEC, last week signed a $1 million, four
>      year agreement for deployment a fiber optic cable from the CentutyLink
>      central telephone exchange in Santa Fe, to a long-haul fiber
>      point-of-presence two miles away, with a co-location facility midway
>      along the fiber route.    Upon completion, the City's CIP High Speed
>      Internet Project will offer dark fiber, Ethernet bandwidth, co-location
>      space and `open access' interconnections to all qualified providers, but
>      will not offer retail finish services.   The project is intended to
>      create a robust, competitive wholesale market for carriers and
>      providers, and to serve as a platform for further commercial fiber and
>      wireless build-outs in the future.
> 
>      Additionally, as noted previously on this list, an MOU between the City
>      and State of NM Department of IT will provide connected data transport
>      capacity to the Albuquerque GigaPoP, thereby widening the range of
>      wholesale options and further stimulating competition in Santa Fe.
> 
>      RL
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