How Open Access Networks Impact ISPs – Episode 11 of the Connect This! Show

In Episode 11 of the Connect This! Show, hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Kim McKinley (Chief Marketing Officer, UTOPIA Fiber), Pete Ashdown (Founder and CEO, XMission) and Cameron Francis (CEO, Beehive Broadband) to share their perspectives on open access networks. The panel explore what open access is like for ISPs that use it and offer thoughts for those who are considering it. What’s in it for the ISPs? Along the way they cover a lot of ground: the lower startup costs and fewer barriers to entry for new ISPs; how banks understand providers operating on those infrastructure models; the role, interests, and benefits of publicly owned open access networks; and the future of software-defined networks both on and as differentiated from open access systems. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us [email protected] with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch below, or on YouTube here.