Wow Dave... The organization that I work for will definitely consider TelJet. In fact, you are at top of the short list now
Thank you for all of the useful information. I look forward to anything you are allowed to share in your draft about the current backbone infrastructure that you mentioned. It sounds like it will be incredibly helpful in making decisions that will guarantee that you do not pick a back-up provider that uses the same infrastructure as the primary/main telecom provider. No matter if you can disclose any information or not, it's nice to know that there is a place that I can contact in the Vermont Telecom Authority to try and gather more information for these purposes. Mike - Thanks to you as well for all of the information. I definitely found it to be helpful. Take care, John Gratton Have a good day. On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:56 PM, David Storandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, all - > > I've been quiet here, so I figure I should pipe up since this is > exactly what I do... > > <sales plug> > I'm the CTO for TelJet, a local fiber-based ISP/construction company. > We build custom telecom installations for various companies, until > now, focused in Middlebury and metro Burlington, with a dribble of > efforts in Rutland. We focus on putting buildings on our fiber > network, and creative customer solutions that Verizon wouldn't do. We > target our Internet service at 3Mbps and up, to stay out of the me-too > T1 game that lots of other CLECs do. > > Our network (so far) is 100% Ethernet based, with every building > entrance fiber served with Gigabit Ethernet. No Verizon or Level3 > circuits... We drop service to a copper 10/100TX port and deliver > transport, Internet, etc. Existing customers have bumped up in the > same day to a higher tier of service performance (pending paperwork), > since everything is delivered on 1000Mbps and is only limited in > software on our core hardware. > > Headliner customers include UVM, Middlebury College, St. Mike's, > Vermont Railway, Shoreham Telephone, and Middlebury schools. Numerous > Champlain Valley WISPs also have service from us. This year's pipeline > for new construction is very full too - busy busy busy. > > We also have a VOIP solution that has seen excellent performance but > we still recommend a POTS backup line, say a fax machine, for 911 > lifeline and 411 directory assistance. > > If you have an office located in one of our "lit" buildings, we can > turn on service as fast as we can get a Cat5 cable run from our local > electronics to your suite, and chase paperwork. > > We've had lots of customers and prospects complain about interacting > with Level3's corporate machine. If service is running great, well, > great. If service is having an issue it's usually a long, painful, and > frustrating process. Your mileage may vary, but by the time we are > talking to Level3 customers they are fed up with them which will bias > our view of the market... > > If you are looking for 3Mbps+ services in metro Burlington or > Middlebury, give us a shot! We don't bite, honest! =P > </sales plug> > > Ok. Now that shop is over with, back to the infrastructure question. > > Mike's mostly close - Sovernet uses a mix of Verizon, TelJet, and Level3. > Comcast and Level3 share cable throughout much of their networks (think > Adelphia and Adelphia Business Solutions as sister companies, before the > fallout around 2000). > > I have drafted something for this group reflecting the state's current > telecom backbone infrastructure. Understand, this is high-level > state-focused industry sensitive information that we've (TelJet) spent a lot > of time and trust to accumulate. Since our business is focused in this exact > area, I need to review our NDAs first just to make sure I'm not violating > anything by dropping the full monty here. > > I don't have a list of VAGUE members and frankly can't contractually bind > ALL of you unless I build a ask-NDA-give channel. The far easier approach is > to make sure I can release this info quasi-publicly. Frankly, I'm interested > to hear your concerns, reflections, or corrections to make sure everything > is accurate for all interested parties here. > > All of the information I have can be assembled from the Vermont Telecom > Authority (at least in majority, if not all) but they can also be restricted > by NDAs from various telecom companies. You have to ask and build a > relationship with them before they will tell you; this again is not the sort > of thing posted to the public. > > More tomorrow when I can review our NDA stockpile. > > -Dave > > > > Quoting Mike Raley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Tue, 10 Jun 2008: > > Actually... Does anybody know where we can find >>> information regarding which >>> ISP's share the same infrastructure here in Vermont? >>> >>> Well, I can think of one or two people who can >> probably tell you, so, hopefully one or two of them >> will chime in here. However, I do believe the >> following is true: >> >> Sovernet uses Verizon >> Teljet uses their own >> BT uses their own locally, but uses a mixture for >> transport >> Level3 uses their own >> Comcast uses level3? >> >> I believe most of the major players also have some >> peering arrangements with the others. Level3 aside >> (otherwise their recent problem wouldn't have been >> that bad?) >> >> anyone care to take a stab at this one and point out >> where I am probably horribly wrong? Dave? >> >> Mike >> >> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. >
