Sorry, no feedback from me.. I have couple of questions though, how much licensing do you need to go through, to actually start a WISP? Also, Kansas.. Are you concerned that you’ll have to compete with Google Fiber at some point?
On 23 Jul 2014, at 20:58, [email protected] wrote: > Hey everybody, > > So all this talk about monopolies, small ISPs vs the big bad netflix , muni > fiber etc etc has been interesting. Lots and lots of talk, lots of > interesting links etc. > > I'm an action/results oriented individual, and have been working on actually > building out a grassroots ISP, instead of just talking about it. :) > > Over the past year or so, I've been involved with an effort to launch a > community ISP in the Kansas City MO area. It's got several towers up now and > a decent amount of users. It's been funded by the community that it serves. > Feel free to ask any questions you have about the details. It's an open > network in all aspects (design, business model etc). It is intentionally > designed/operated in such a way that all aspects can be disclosed. > > We are now ready to take the next step and obtain an ASN and v6 space (also > looks like we can get a /24 of v4 space as well). > > What are the things that we should do before we get those resources? What > should we do immediately after? What books/rfc/bcp should we be most familiar > with? > > As is typical of many small outfits, we have an incredibly high degree of > software skill, and a limited budget which goes entirely to hardware. > > This is a greenfield network. We've got Ubiquiti gear for the backbone. > Running a mix of QMP routers with BMX6 as the IGP linked over AirOS l2 bridge > "pseudowires". We'll be homed to two AS upstreams. Using pfSense as the WAN > edge routers. > > From all my reading of the list, it seems like key things to do in this > scenario: > > 1) Have full flow telemetry at all points to help with (D)DOS mitigation. > 2) Do CGN in pools (so perhaps ~500 to 1k users behind each IP)? > 3) Provision a /56 of v6 space to each end user. I was thinking of having the > CPE with CeroWRT and be multi SSID with a /64 per. I'm interested in folks > thoughts on this? > 4) Upsell a public v4 address if someone requires it > 5) Of course implement bcp38 > > I'm mostly interested in technical feedback. Business model etc type feedback > is welcome as well, but not the primary purpose of this message. :) > > Thanks! > > Charles Wyble > CTO Free Network Foundation
