How to: find high speed data access, non-retail.

[Jack Coats]

Back in the days before .bom we built a new data center from scratch.
Most of the common carriers will sell at commercial rates to anyone, just
make sure they allow  you to resell, give you permanent IP addresses
(v4 and v6),
and will allow use of BGP protocol or similar for fail over routing.

We had a local fiber service, time warner had a sonnet ring going by
one end of the
building, AT&T had oc158 in a switch at the end of the building (we
just got a 10M link from them)
and a couple of T1's.  Level 5 and some other(I don't remember)
provided the service on the other
end of the T1's.  All went into a couple of nice firwalls and cisco routers.

All vendors agreed, we got 'reseller rates', and billed for bandwidth
to the customers.

But that is what it takes to do a 'good network'.

Lots of luck...

><> ... Jack
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23

"You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people."
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Hopper, US Navy Admiral
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On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 5:04 PM,  <jkinz-+hffLmS/kj4 at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a local study group looking into building a pilot project as
> a prototype of a municipally owned, commercially operated (possibly),
> broadband service.
>
> I am trying to find out what hi-speed data connections exist
> either in our town or near enough to it, that they might be used as the
> internet access for the pilot. This is in Hudson, MA
>
> Does anyone have any ideas about what telecomm services may already have
> fiber (or anything else ) installed in Hudson, or nearby?  Or suggestions
> about how I can look for such companies?
>
>
>
> If you care: (meaning - why read this unless you have to? .. )
>
> background info on the project but -not- requirements for the
> pilot::
>
> So far the group has determined that Fiber is the desired media. The
> choice of: to the curb or to the home hasn't been determined yet, but
> it seems clear that time will ultimately settle on "to the home" so we
> will be planing on installing with "to the home", or making sure that
> upgrading to it will be directly built-into the implementation.
>
> Also the group has determined that it should provide a semi-dark fiber
> installation and open the cable plant to any vendor who wishes to sell
> services directly to end users. Hopefully a group of aggressively
> competitive vendors will produce lower prices for services.  The study
> group has been much influenced by the story of Burlington telecomm.
>
> http://www.burlingtontelecom.com/residential_services/bundles.htm
>
> In this case Broadband means using either wired and wireless
> capabilities as needed and directed by the local geography - as in
> obstructions to installing fiber and obstructions to using Wi-Fi.
>
> The service is intended to be used for any "legal application(s)".
> So any multi-media networked gaming, telephone, movies, music, etc...
> and yes, plain old internet. whatever that means these days.
>
>
>
> --- even deeper Background info ----
>
> As a result of my unstinting and boundlessly energetic efforts to persuade
> certain locally connected and politically influential neighbors,
>
> [read: "my never ending whine-ing and complaining at them"]
>
> I'm now part of a feasibility study group charged with generating a report
> and a set of recommendations on whether or not our village should run its
> own communications network for connecting to the internet.
>
> The report has to describe what the reasonable paths to follow in building
> a local telecomm capability are, how the paths can be financed, what the
> potential liabilities are, legality of such a service and how it should be
> staged: how many discrete, progressive chunks) it should be split up into.
>
> The Town has a very high financial rating and the town leaders are very
> determined to keep it that way. This reduces the potential number of
> financing solutions but it is a core characteristic of the local political
> and governmental culture.
>
> Since there are an overwhelming number of combinations to study the
> possibilities of the study group cut off the study effort by issuing a
> preliminary report that outlined what others have already done and
> made an initial recommendation of designing a pilot project as the next step.
>
> The reasoning is that the effort of designing a pilot project will generate
> some actual cost data and hard information about what facilities exist in
> our region for building these services.  The discussion above is the result
> of the effort now planning that pilot project.
>
>
>
> --
> Jeff Kinz                                            Emergent Design,
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