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I'm fairly sure it's been mentioned around here that ... [Aquiss] ... are looking to move to their own network and that ASN is the first step.

I can confirm that this is indeed the case and something we will continue to develop further in the coming months.

Hi Martin, this is new to me, I barely understand what an ASN is and how it relates to the rest of the Internet. Could you put up a blog about this somewhere please?

Hundreds of guides/blogs on Google.

https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/network-la...

In reply to a post by j0hn83:

Hundreds of guides/blogs on Google.

https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/network-la...

I am more interested in Martin's take on this as an Aquiss customer.

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Hundreds of guides/blogs on Google.

https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/network-la...

I am more interested in Martin's take on this as an Aquiss customer.

I'm not entirely sure what my take needs to be? As John has kindly pointed to, there are already well written guides to ASNs. We're doing nothing special in this regard.

If you're actually asking what this means to your current services, nothing at all and our network partners know this (our plans) in detail

OK, end to end, it is bound to be the same, but the middle must change, or nothing changes. On your description, no benefits to me as a customer, so why do it? What is the difference to the status quo? Does it affect more than routing? Does it affect my DNS servers?

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I'm not entirely sure what my take needs to be?

Hi Martin, As an outsider looking in I think people who are happy with your current service will be looking for reassurance that its not suddenly going to go down hill. Just look at Zen when they switched existing happy customers to their own backhaul as an example.

Coincidently my Aquiss Openreach FTTP link went down from 00:25 to 00:40 today (red light on the ONT.) Router log showed the timing of the drop. Just had a look at the Aquiss status page and nothing mentioned there regarding maintenance etc.

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OK, end to end, it is bound to be the same, but the middle must change, or nothing changes. On your description, no benefits to me as a customer, so why do it? What is the difference to the status quo? Does it affect more than routing? Does it affect my DNS servers?

Networks are always evolving and changing, otherwise they'll end up stuck in the past and become irrelevant.

I'm not an expert but I'd suggest this is a natural progression for a growing provider.

In reply to a post by 4M2:

Coincidently my Aquiss Openreach FTTP link went down from 00:25 to 00:40 today (red light on the ONT.) Router log showed the timing of the drop. Just had a look at the Aquiss status page and nothing mentioned there regarding maintenance etc.

OR had a drop in RG22 overnight. It's off our network, so won't feature on our status page.

In reply to a post by PCJM40:

Hi Martin, As an outsider looking in I think people who are happy with your current service will be looking for reassurance that its not suddenly going to go down hill. Just look at Zen when they switched existing happy customers to their own backhaul as an example.

I've already said above that nothing is changing with our current network partners and they remain very much part of what we are doing going forward, however, the market is changing and we are growing. I don't really want to present our business plans into the public domain, however, in order for us to accommodate other networks, we need to do this without CityFibre Wholesale (naturally).