Re:FCC weakens net neutrality rule in a prelude to larger ro...
by AnthonyMouse on Friday February 24, 2017 @06:34PM
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> What does "last mile ISP" mean here?
It means you control a physical data wire that goes into more than a thousand residential buildings.
> DSL is no longer competitive, and most implementations of cable and fiber have no separation between "infrastructure provider" and "bandwidth provider".
You're the last mile ISP if you're the infrastructure provider regardless of whether you're also the bandwidth provider.
> What if their central office isn't connected to anyone else directly, because they get all their bandwidth and peering from one or more of the major backbones? Presumably they can say "go to those backbones", rather than having to start making peering arrangements with individual services.
Outside of megaplayers like Netflix and Google who are effectively Tier 1 networks unto themselves, the backbones and CDNs are the people who use the free peering. Some website like Yelp or Expedia doesn't want to peer with ISPs or run a CDN, they want to pay Akamai et al to take care of that.
> What if their central office doesn't have an "across the street" where you can put servers?
You can put them wherever you want to. Nobody stops you from putting all your servers for the whole world in one city, or having regional hubs, or doing whatever you want. That's your network, not the last mile ISP's. Level 3 can run fiber from an office 200 miles away if they think that's worth it over buying closer office space.
> Or what if they don't have a "central office", period?
Then where do they normally peer with other networks or operate CDN hardware?
It means you control a physical data wire that goes into more than a thousand residential buildings.
> DSL is no longer competitive, and most implementations of cable and fiber have no separation between "infrastructure provider" and "bandwidth provider".
You're the last mile ISP if you're the infrastructure provider regardless of whether you're also the bandwidth provider.
> What if their central office isn't connected to anyone else directly, because they get all their bandwidth and peering from one or more of the major backbones? Presumably they can say "go to those backbones", rather than having to start making peering arrangements with individual services.
Outside of megaplayers like Netflix and Google who are effectively Tier 1 networks unto themselves, the backbones and CDNs are the people who use the free peering. Some website like Yelp or Expedia doesn't want to peer with ISPs or run a CDN, they want to pay Akamai et al to take care of that.
> What if their central office doesn't have an "across the street" where you can put servers?
You can put them wherever you want to. Nobody stops you from putting all your servers for the whole world in one city, or having regional hubs, or doing whatever you want. That's your network, not the last mile ISP's. Level 3 can run fiber from an office 200 miles away if they think that's worth it over buying closer office space.
> Or what if they don't have a "central office", period?
Then where do they normally peer with other networks or operate CDN hardware?