A British village that built one of the UK’s fastest internet networks

Re:A British village that built one of the UK’s fastest inte... by throw0101a on Saturday July 04, 2020 @05:12PM (#23734951)

A few years ago Ars also had a good article on Ammon, Idaho, which build an open-access municipal fibre infrastructure that ISPs offer services on:

* https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/what-...

The embedded video is a good intro on muni-fibre:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSQVvFY4lPI

Personally I think that's how all Internet connectivity should be done: the OIS Level 1/2 stuff is run either by the government, or at least a non-profit, and the IP connectivity is handle by the private sector.

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Re:A British village that built one of the UK’s fastest inte... by walrus01 on Sunday July 05, 2020 @04:31AM (#23737353)

A number of the county owned public utility districts in Washington state have done exactly that, osi layer 1 and 2 run by the county. Individual ISPs establish NNIs with the county at a core network locations and offer layer 3 (and billing, customer end user support, other value added services).

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Re:A British village that built one of the UK’s fastest inte... by ghthor on Sunday July 05, 2020 @01:57AM (#23736899)

Yes, it's the only way we will get good last mile fiber rollouts.

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