I just set up a high bandwidth user with 3 DSL connections and 3 Cable connections and an SWAN SW-88 Load balancer. They too were looking at TW fiber but also wanted redundancy. I could have set them up with 4 of each, but they didn't feel they needed that much bandwidth. The load balancer does fail over between connections and provides them with all the bandwidth they require at a fraction of what they would have to pay TWC for a 10Mb connection. And since they are using half DSL and half Cable, the odds are that only one will go down at a time, so they are less likely to lose connectivity. The load balancer is capable of working with either static or dynamic addresses, or both at the same time.
I thought it was an interesting project. I don't know if it is applicable to your situation. You can view my write up and some screen shots at http://www.linuxgeek.net/?page_id=121 Matt Fanady wrote: > We're still sitting on the fence with a project where we're looking > for similar bandwidth solutions. We're in an area where the only easy > solution is DSL. There's no cable, and no fixed wireless. So if we > want more than a 6 Mb/s DSL line, we have to either go with a > fractional DS3, or bonded T1's....and they're both quite spendy. > > This question is actually directed at Shapery, but anyone else is > welcome to comment of course. > > The best quote we got for bandwidth was from Time Warner. All speeds > are symmetrical. For a 36mo term, we could get: > > 5 Mb/s $850/mo > 10Mb/s $1,250/mo > 20Mb/s $1,850/mo > 45Mb/s $2,895/mo > > These CIR are based on a 100 Mb/s ethernet pipe. > > Do these prices seem in line with what you would expect to pay? The > location is on Miramar Road across the street from the Marine base. > > -M@ > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Steve Shapery <st...@shapery.com> wrote: >> The Tubes are full!!! >> >> Fundamentally, there is no "Core Backbone" for the internet. It is a >> conglomeration of multiple private carriers, who 'peer' at public and >> private points using the BGP protocol. (See: NAP, MAE-WEST, etc) >> >> if you want to connect to 'the core Internet' you'll need to get a circuit >> from a "Tier-1" carrier - i.e. ATT, Level (3), etc.. and then you will be >> as close as you can get to 'the core'. >> >> as for high-speed connections - these days, you can get good pricing from >> multiple Tier-1 or Tier-2 carriers for 100Mbps circuits into a colocation >> facility, or anywhere that's on their networks (see: ON-NET). depending on >> how many sites you want to branch out to for coverage, it can get quite >> pricy quite quickly. >> >> But as an example, you can get many carriers to extend their fiber >> footprint into your facility based on spend and term commitment - I have >> Cox trenching and doing a 3000' fiber build into one of my buildings based >> on a $10,500/mo spend commit on a 36 month term. That's for a dedicated >> 100Mbps circuit to Mexico. For Internet, you can get alot of services >> quite a bit cheaper - currently, I can get 1000Mbps wire to the internet >> with a 100mbps CIR for $3000/mo. >> >> So look around - if you want to play in the Enterprise market, let me know >> and I can introduce you to some of my salespeople. >> >> >> --Steve >> >> >> >> >> Brian Whalen wrote: >>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> >>> <html> >>> <head> >>> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> >>> </head> >>> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> >>> green bean wrote: >>> <blockquote >>> cite="mid:827143b70904261100t402e0b7le18ffaea9f9d5...@mail.gmail.com" >>> type="cite"> >>> <div dir="ltr">could someone please explain to me how to connect >>> directly to the internet backbone?<br> >>> or to buy bandwidth at a wholesale price?<br> >>> my goal would be to plan a WISP [wireless internet service provider]<br> >>> with enough bandwidth both up and down that <br> >>> one thousand customers could each have broadband service more or less<br> >>> equal to a cheap DSL connection of 0.5 MBPS. lets assume only >>> one-fourth of the <br> >>> customers are online during internet rush hour. so 250 x 0.5 MBPS = 125 >>> MBPS<br> >>> which is why i would like to directly connect to the internet backbone >>> at a wholesale price <br> >>> much less than if i had to buy [retail priced] bandwidth 6MBPS at a >>> time. <br> >>> how is that done?<br> >>> </div> >>> <pre wrap=""> >>> <hr size="4" width="90%"> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List >>> To unsubscribe, please visit: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" >>> href="http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org";>http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org</a></pre> >>> </blockquote> >>> Either connect to multiple providers and get an AS number and speak BGP >>> to several providers, or connect to a single provider that does this >>> already, some emphasize carrier neutrality, Internap was the defacto >>> standard in the past for this, I don't know about now.<br> >>> <br> >>> Brian<br> >>> </body> >>> </html> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List >>> To unsubscribe, please visit: >>> http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List >> To unsubscribe, please visit: >> http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org >> > > _______________________________________________ > SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List > To unsubscribe, please visit: > http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org > -- Neil Schneider pacneil_at_linuxgeek_dot_net Key fingerprint = 67F0 E493 FCC0 0A8C 769B 8209 32D7 1DB1 8460 C47D "Work to eat, eat to live, live to bike, bike to work." -- Naomi Bloom _______________________________________________ SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List To unsubscribe, please visit: http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org
