Re: Alien Waves

[Brandon Martin <lists.nanog () monmotha net>]

On 5/12/24 22:11, Dave Cohen wrote:
> There are some single-market/regional providers that I'm aware of 
> currently offering spectrum, but I believe you'll be hard pressed to 
> find others with national footprints in the US that will. Zayo and Lumen 
> both did a bit of a will they/won't they with it for a long time, and my 
> understanding is that neither of them currently offer it, or at least 
> will tell you that publicly.

I engaged Zayo about some spectrum and/or a single alien wave between a 
couple of "nearby" regional PoPs a couple years ago and got told pretty 
unequivocally that, despite it being in their service catalog, 
productized, and even having some form of standard pricing, they did not 
want to actually offer it.

I doubt that's changed given my dealings with them since (which have 
been fine, to be clear), but I can't be 100% sure.  I suspect they did 
at least turn up a few of them given that they went to the trouble of 
creating a full-fledged product for it.  Maybe they found out the hassle 
wasn't worth it?