Mike,
I work for a school district that has this problem about 8 years ago and
decided to lay down its own fiber. One thing that we did to make things
go more smoothly was to put in extra fiber and then use that as a
bargaining chip with the local municipalities to help ease the
permitting process (e.g. you can get access to it to link together your
city halls, police, fire locations, etc. if you give us some breaks on
permitting). The other thing to realize is that you have to maintain it
which means hiring a company to mark your fiber when someone wants to
dig near it and then you have to repair it when someone breaks it or a
storm happens (you will need a backup for when this happens - e.g. dual
separated runs). It is a lot of work (much of this can be outsourced),
but can end up with big savings especially as you can change out end
point devices and jump from 1GB to 10GB.
cheers,
ski
On 12/21/2011 08:54 AM, Michael Ryder wrote:
Thanks Will
You're right, ideally the WAN link would be a PTP connection.
Using an ISP might not be a bad idea, at least for backup purposes.
We could always create a PTP VPN to make that work... The capacity
would need to be north of 10Mb, and as we're finding out, probably
closer to 50Mb. (Right now, regional services are crippled whenever
we're on the 10Mb line).
I think we would even consider laying new fiber -- there are a number
of other corporations in our area that likely rely on Verizon as well,
that would probably be excited at the possibility of an alternative
carrier.
We're working on getting our own dark fiber right now, to connect our
main campus to another of our buildings down the street, to get even a
little farther away from Verizon, their exorbitant prices and poor
service.
Thanks for the reply and time.
Mike
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Will Dennis<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Mike,
We use Quest (now known as “CenturyLink”) for our ISP. They do utilize
Verizon copper/fiber as the physical layer medium for our WAN link (100Mbps
metro-eth.) The problem is that most of the traditional physical facilities
were installed by Bell Atlantic or Verizon, and there’s no more
(non-expensive) right-of-way / installs to be had. So the ILECs are stuck
with leasing VZ phy media.
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