No arguments on the regs and tort quagmires.
Lightpath isn't a startup. I recall their initial foray into fiber delivery back in the 80s, when they were dropping fiber into Gruman Data Center on Long Island. They actually targeted the larger firms, initially, but I think they'll serve anyone today, as long as the customer can sign a contract committing to minimum volumes over so many years. The bogie at one time was 48 DOs or equivalent, which meant two (2) T1 lines. It later came down somewhat (in the city proper, in any event), but I'm not sure what it is today.
I wasn't making that assumption. I'm tending to doubt lack of mail servers is a deal breaker for businesses, especially larger businesses."
Recall, Cablevision is the same company that offers cable modem services under the brand name of Optonline.
I would imagine that, despite their different delivery signatures, both of these, along with the cable tv systems groups, leverage common platforms both in the back office and in their networking fabrics. In the case of mail and DNS services, the LEC and CM parts are probably on partitions of the same servers and routers. I.e., the two divisions probably share common resources along the lines of broadband cable modem and Enterprise offerings, with the latter being far less significant, as you note, than the former (residential cable modem), when it comes to customer dependence on the service provider. These are only my surmisings up to this point, so:
I don't want to cut this short, but I find myself replying here more on conjecture than first-hand information. So, I'm lining up a meeting with Cablevision for next week to discuss their enterprise offerings with them, since they are heavily deployed in a number of districts where I have new developments going up, mostly enterprise office parks and the like. I'll know better how to answer some of your questions at that time. Whatever else you'd like to know, just post away or PM me. I'll leave it there, for now.
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