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

[Kim Callis]

Brian W. wrote:
> green bean wrote:
>> could someone please explain to me how to connect directly to the 
>> internet backbone?
>> or to buy bandwidth at a wholesale price?
>> 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?
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> If you want to actually be a "core provider" you may want to consider 
> running connections to multiple providers and run BGP to get routes 
> from all of them, or buy from a provider like Internap that does 
> this.  If you want to be a wireless ISP you also need to deal with 
> transmitting the signal, geography and buildings have a huge impact 
> there.
>
> Brian
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Brian,

By using BGP to do the routing, does that bond the incoming routes or 
does the outgoing get routed to the various providers in a round-robin 
(or spanning) sort of way?

K.