On Feb 2, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Jay Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jay Ashworth" <[email protected]> > >> It's about 3 square miles, and has about 8000 passings, the majority >> of which are single or double family residential; a sprinkling of >> multi-tenant, about a dozen city facilities, and a bunch of retail >> multi-unit business. > > I was musing, off-list, as to why there isn't a Mad-Lib you can just plug > some numbers into and get within, say, 40% or so of your target costs for > a given design. > > Well, > > http://www.ftthcommunitytoolkit.wikispaces.net > > isn't it, but it does have a bunch of useful information for this project, > looks like. > > A couple of clarifying points: > > 1) I had posited GPON as I assumed that was where most of the CATV over > FTTH hardware work was, vice FiOS. Turns out there's lots of hardware for > IPTV as well, and quite a number of smaller deployments, so apparently > that path is easier than I thought. The only difference is cross-connect > fiber counts, and possibly some link budget. > > 2) I was planning to provide an IX switch in my colo, so all my L3 providers > could short-circuit traffic to my *other* providers through it, unloading > my uplinks. > > 3) Given that, I suppose I could put Limelight and Akamai racks in there, > and couple them to the IX switch as well, policies permitting. > > 4) Given what a pisser it's going to be to get tags to me on the local > backbone loops (about 3 are with 5 miles of my city border), I'm also > considering having a 10G or 2 hauled in from each of 2 backbones, and > reselling those to my L3 providers (again at cost recovery pricing), > while not precluding any provider wanting to haul in their own uplink > from doing so. >
A better model, IMHO, is to encourage the backbones to come meet your providers at your IX/Colo. > 5) There's a possiblity my college campus may be on I2 (or want to); > perhaps I can facilitate that as well -- and possible (again, policies > permitting) extend such connections to relevant staff members or students > who live in the city) (I'm not as familiar with I2 as I should be). Do some research before you pursue this too vocally or commit to it. > 6) And pursuant to 3, perhaps I could even set up the IPTV service and > resell that to the L3 provider to bundle with their IP service, so > they don't have to do it themselves; while it's not a difficult as I > had gathered, it's still harder than them doing VoIP as part of their > own triple-play. Pandora's can of worms. Owen
