lml,
>>For once it appears Kennard & the FCC are standing behind its words -- the priority to create competition along the 'last mile.' And it is clear in the way to do so -- to provide incentive to deliver broadband access to a market that is virtually monopolistic.<<
I know from whence you come in this regard, and in principle I agree that competition should be allowed all possible opportunities. But I see a growing form of dilemma here.
How do you reconcile these goals against the realities of spatial and other administrative and logistic boondoggles that await such a level of competition at the actual field node, where the rubber hits the road, as described so precisely by WTC in his later post here:
from: Message 6796733
>>This gets really messy when you take into account what is available to a CLEC -- will the FCC decide there must be an unbundled network element (UNE) for the loop from the DLC remote terminal to the subscriber? How do you price it? If the CLEC has the only direct connection to the subloop, how does the ILEC test it? (they are still responsible for the physical layer when they sell a UNE). Where does the CLEC equipment (DSLAM) go -- in the existing ILEC cabinet? How do you apportion the limited space? Do you provide a separate cabinet for the CLEC(s)? Who secures the right of way for the new cabinet and power connection? How do you pay for thousands of new CLEC cabinets (say, $4500 each, turnkey, bare shelves with power) collocated with the thousands of ILEC DLC remote terminals? <<
Stark realities, I'd say, and a re-introduction of the rationales that support a monopoly empowered facilities-based environment. But that doesn't mean that, with today's technologies, the facilities-based carrier should necessarily hold all the cards, as I suggest below.
Can you see a lottery in the offing here, for DSL pole and terminal space in the future? Or does the answer lie in unbundling of the upper layers in the stack, say at Layers 2 and 3 from a central point of access in the CO, or deeper into the cloud still, at some regional transfer point [assuming that the ILEC indeed puts a DSL framework in place, to begin with]?
Regards, Frank C.
|
