[SCFN] ITS ALL ABOUT THE BACKBONE - THE INTERNET BACKBONE

[Charles Wyble]

green bean wrote:
> could someone please explain to me how to connect directly to the 
> internet backbone?

There are many ways to do this.

Some immediate ones that come to mind:

1) You could establish a presence in a carrier neutral facility and pay 
a monthly cross connect fee. On the pro side, this gives you a blended 
selection of carriers (and prices/service levels) and the ability to 
better route around failures.

On the con side, you would need to have a way for your customers CPE to 
see your antenna array. So this most likely isn't an option for you, 
unless you can deploy antennas with Line of Sight to your customers. If 
you can do this, then I highly recommend it. For example One Wilshire 
has a wireless meet me room (as do various other carrier facilities). 
This would then just be a wireless bridge, connected to the MDF of the 
facility.


2) You could deploy a high bandwidth leased line from your own "middle 
mile" POP (where your customers wifi connections would terminate) to a 
carrier neutral facility. This could be done via Fiber or some (most 
likely licensed) wireless connection (microwave is often used).

I don't know how your customers are distributed.... I have various ideas 
about core/edge/aggregation with wireless that I'm playing with for a 
deployment throughout Los Angeles county. However I have the distinct 
advantage that massive portions of the county have Line Of Site to 
extremely well connected carrier neutral facilities (such as One Wilshire).






> or to buy bandwidth at a wholesale price?

Your best bet is to get into a carrier neutral facility where a wide 
variety of choices are available to you via a meet me room.

I imagine a hybrid approach might work best for you. Say a set of POPs 
aggregated to a central point that gets back hauled to a carrier neutral 
facility.


> my goal would be to plan a WISP [wireless internet service provider]
> with enough bandwidth both up and down that
> one thousand customers could each have broadband service more or less
> equal to a cheap DSL connection of 0.5 MBPS. lets assume only one-fourth 
> of the
> customers are online during internet rush hour. so 250 x 0.5 MBPS = 125 MBPS
> which is why i would like to directly connect to the internet backbone 
> at a wholesale price
> much less than if i had to buy [retail priced] bandwidth 6MBPS at a time.
> how is that done?

Hopefully this points you in the right direction. It's a big job, but 
doable. Check out the wispa.org mailing list for all things WISP related.

What geographic are are you targeting? If it's in Southern California 
then I would be happy to discuss operating under the auspices of the 
socalwifi.org banner.