Middle mile¶
Middle-mile provision is a major issue in reducing the price of broadband Internet provision by non-incumbent operators.
Core Idea¶
Middle mile is treated here as the recurring computerscienceandinformation identity summarized by this source-grounded definition: Middle-mile provision is a major issue in reducing the price of broadband Internet provision by non-incumbent operators. In the broadband Internet industry, the "middle mile" is the segment of a telecommunications network linking a network operator's core network to the local network plant, typically situated in the incumbent telco's central office (British English: telephone exchange) that provides access to the local loop, or in the case of cable television operators, the local cable modem termination system.
Scope of Application¶
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Documented setting. This includes both the backhaul network to the nearest aggregation point, and any other parts of the network needed to connect the aggregation point to the nearest point of presence on.
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Documented setting. Middle-mile provision is a major issue in reducing the price of broadband Internet provision by non-incumbent operators.
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Documented setting. However, middle-mile access, where bought from the incumbent operator, is often much more expensive than either, and typically forms the major expense of non-incumbent broadband ISPs.
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Documented setting. The alternative, building out their own fibre networks, is capital-intensive, and thus unavailable to most new operators.
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Documented setting. For this reason, many proposals for government broadband stimulus initiatives are directed at building out the middle mile.
Clarity¶
A clear use of Middle mile names the carrier, the operative relation, and the conditions under which the source treats the identity as present. The minimal definition is Middle-mile provision is a major issue in reducing the price of broadband Internet provision by non-incumbent operators.
Manages Complexity¶
Middle mile compresses multiple computerscienceandinformation details into a stable diagnostic relation. The source shows both the central mechanism—two examples are the Network New Hampshire Now and Maine Fiber Company in the Northeast US, both funded largely by the National Broadband Plan (United States) to connect all community anchor institutions.—and the practical consequence—this includes both the backhaul network to the nearest aggregation point, and any other parts of.
Abstract Reasoning¶
- Type the carrier. Identify the computerscienceandinformation entities to which the claim applies.
- State the relation. Use the source-grounded identity: Middle-mile provision is a major issue in reducing the price of broadband Internet provision by non-incumbent operators.
- Check operation and conditions. Open access initiatives such as duct sharing, utility pole sharing, and fiber unbundling are also being tried by regulators as mechanisms to ease the middle mile problem by reducing costs to non-incumbents.
- Demand recognition evidence.
Knowledge Transfer¶
Within the home domain. Knowledge about Middle mile transfers literally when a new case preserves the same carrier type, relation, and recognition test. This includes both the backhaul network to the nearest aggregation point, and any other parts of the network needed to connect the aggregation point to the nearest point of presence on the operator's core network. Middle-mile provision is a major issue in reducing the price of broadband Internet provision by non-incumbent operators. Beyond the home domain. No canonical parent is asserted for Middle mile.
Neighborhood in Abstraction Space¶
Middle mile sits in a sparse region of the domain-specific corpus (77th percentile for distinctiveness): few abstractions share its structure, so a faithful description tends to retrieve it precisely.
Family — Unclustered & Miscellaneous (2551 abstractions)
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