To add to this, not at 350 E. Cermak, but Cyber just joined up with some fellow WISPA folks at 56 Marietta in Atlana. We have a one gig transport back to a site that I know at least Faisal and Rodger Lewis use. Rodger has fiber in some areas in college towns in FL ; I'm pretty sure he gets a good bit of usage (he's Velocity Online)
>From the time we started looking at this to full implementation has been >nearly 1 1/2 years ; and nearly a year from order to implementation. In fact, >we're still waiting on a site-to-site transport to be turned up via Charter. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Hammett To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 4:27 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 350 E. Cermak Agreed. We already have ~1/3 cabinet, maybe more (not sure what was agreed upon) available. Makes sense to work together where we can to save on extra cross connects (though I can get them for $175), rack space, etc. Makes sense to pool resources where we can. I know a couple WISP friendly networks are hitting up most of the major IXes in the country. One was talking a fairly low rate ($0.25/meg, IIRC) for access to all peering they had. Also, lots of people seem really excited about buying HE when HE's customers are available for free on the exchanges. Cogent has a big network, but use them for customer routes only as well. Save your money and buy from a web host that probably has a mix of Level 3, NTT, GTT, Tiscali, etc. Much better use of your money than the others. That's where aggregated purchasing, shared rackspace\crossconnects, etc. comes in handy. Get a wide portfolio of connectivity for your buck. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Erich Kaiser" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 3:24:07 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 350 E. Cermak I think it makes sense if people talk before deploying new cabinets and upstreams, instead of throwing money away. just my opinion.... Gerard are you guys in the Server Central Cage? I know CTI has cabinets there. From a transport port perspective, some of us are thinking of x-connecting to Server Central. Erich Kaiser North Central Tower Consulting [email protected] Office: 630-621-4804 Cell: 630-777-9291 On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Gerard Dupont III <[email protected]> wrote: We're there. Still working on getting the exchange port turned up though. We'll be at the fispa, animal farm, and wispamerica shows if anyone wants to talk. Gerard On Saturday, January 10, 2015, Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote: There is some grouping happening now, but no great love fest yet. Hoping to get the rest hashed out at WISPAmerica. I got too busy to keep organizing things and in the meantime, not a lot of traction has been made (no blaming going on, WISPs are hard to organize and usually avoid\disagree with lawyers). In the meantime, a few of us have just gone there anyway. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Chris Fabien" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 12:20:59 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 350 E. Cermak I have been looking into it, getting transport quotes etc, but the lack of response from the wispa appointed coordinator leaves me wondering what exactly im plugging into there. Are you guys all just getting your own rack space and peering connections or is there some group actually sharing facilities currently? On Jan 10, 2015 12:00 PM, "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> wrote: Who of you is already there? Who of you has a set schedule for being there? ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -- Gerard
