FCC licensing? No licenses as long as you operate in unlicensed bands (ie, 900mhz/2.4ghz/5).
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:10 AM, hayden <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
