[AusNOG] NBN Co Layer 2 vs. Layer 3 Services

[McDonald Richards]

I've been to a couple of their workshops now and from what I can tell, NBN
Co have no intention of providing a layer 3 service. Where are the other
voices and are they people with clue or just opinion pieces from industry
commentators?
 
Macca
 
 
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[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Skeeve Stevens
Sent: Thursday, 22 April 2010 9:03 AM
To: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: [AusNOG] NBN Co Layer 2 vs. Layer 3 Services
 
Hey all,
 
Just a quick question.  
 
At the moment there is a lot of talk of NBN and whether they are going to
deliver Layer 2 or Layer 3 services.
 
I am a little confused about what is meant by that.  In that as ISP's, I
would assume that we would only want Layer 2 services from them? Just in
kind of a DSL Wholesale/Ethernet wholesale/etc situation that we already
have.
 
Most of our ISP customers would be happy if the NBN operated just like the
current wholesale models out there at the moment.  Little ISP calls his
aggregator and says he wants a NBN VLAN to this address which they get from
NBNCo (if directly if you are big enough and can afford to interconnect
yourself), which is turned on and presented at an aggregation port... very
much like taking wholesale ethernet from Pipe, Nextgen, Telstra and others
today.
 
This makes sense to me.
 
But there is a bunch of voices saying they want the NBN Co to do Layer 3...
and I am not quite sure what is meant by that?  Users buy bandwidth off the
NBN Co? Turning them into a retail ISP?
 
If this seems like a stupid question, I am sorry about that... but there are
some voices who have access to presenting their views and are doing so about
NBN should be doing Layer 3... and I am trying to find some understanding
about what is actually being suggested.
 
...Skeeve
 
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