[kwlug-disc] YAK Internet + Home Phone deal for Kitchener

[Kyle Spaans]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Colin Mackay <zixiekat at gmail.com> wrote:
> >From what I am told...
>
> Yak is running their own fiber to the CO, bypassing Bell.  So your
> landline connection runs through the POTS multiplexers to the CO, then
> immediately onto Yak owned Fiber, and then out through their
> connection to a major backbone.

The way I understand it is that Yak colocates their own DSLAMs in COs. And
the Bell DSLAM is where the throttling is usually done, hence you can get around
that. I'm sure they also have their own backbone stuff after the DSLAM as well.
(I believe that Teksavvy also has their own backbone stuff, partly, but no DSLAM
of their own. Primus apparently also has their own DSLAMS.)