Chapter 8 covered what you do with broadband after you get it into your home. In the case of a traditional single family dwelling in the suburbs with a white picket fence and nice flowerbed, you control all the access rights from the broadband service provider to your internal connection. But what if you don't control that access? What if someone else owns the building?
When more parties get involved, things generally get messier, but not in this case. Service providers love finding a dense population, which reduces their costs because they can place a node of some type at the location to service all the clients in the immediate area. In some cases, service providers actually put central office equipment at the site and use fiber optic cables to link to the real central office.
The good news is that any modern apartment, condo, executive suite, or office park you move into should have excellent broadband access and perhaps a dedicated service provider. The bad news is that sometimes you don't have a choice about your service provider and are stuck with the company holding the contract from the landlord or property manager.
If your apartment management allows primary broadband access providers to connect to individual apartments, ignore this chapter. This chapter is important only when the management of your site controls the access and forces you to use a service provider of their choice.
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