RE: FCC Takes Steps to Enforce Quality Standards for Rural Broadband

["Aaron Gould" <aaron1 () gvtc com>]

I heard that we would be testing to Dallas or something like that from my ISP in San Antonio.

 

I think I heard that customer CPE routers will soon have that testing functionality built into them.

 

-Aaron

 

From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Livingood, Jason
Sent: Monday, November 4, 2019 1:23 PM
To: Bill Woodcock; North American Network Operators' Group
Subject: Re: FCC Takes Steps to Enforce Quality Standards for Rural Broadband

 

I do not. But in the FCC’s Measuring Broadband America program (MBA) they have SamKnows measurement servers located in 
a few places so perhaps that is what they mean? See 
https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/reports/measuring-broadband-america/measuring-fixed-broadband-eighth-report which 
says “The measurement servers were hosted by M-Lab and Level 3 Communications, and were located in ten cities across 
the United States near a point of interconnection between the ISP’s network and the network on which the measurement 
server resided.” In the newest (in process) report I believe they also added StackPath. 

 

Jason

 

 

 

From: NANOG <nanog-bounces () nanog org> on behalf of Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net>
Date: Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 11:58 PM
To: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>, North American Network Operators' Group <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Re: FCC Takes Steps to Enforce Quality Standards for Rural Broadband

 





On Oct 31, 2019, at 6:42 PM, Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:
There is just so much I want to make sarcastic comments about, but I worry about offending future potential employers 
(all of them).
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-takes-steps-enforce-quality-standards-rural-broadband-0

 

"The Bureaus required ETCs to perform speed and latency tests from the customer premises of an active subscriber to a 
remote test server located at or reached by passing through an FCC-designated Internet Exchange Point (IXP) and set a 
daily test period (requiring carriers to conduct tests between 6:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. local time) for such tests.”

 

Anybody have a reference for the “FCC-designated IXPs?”  And what distinguishes them from the actual set of IXPs?


                                -Bill