BTW, We retired our squid cache server a few years ago. It was based in our main NOC, not at the edge. If I had to do it again, I would put small caches at the edge instead. Just make sure if they die or hang the customers can still get out. I would make the caches small (10G) with multiple small drives stripped for speed.
But I prefer real bandwidth. Marco On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Marco Coelho <[email protected]> wrote: > Lots of different factors. > > One of the biggest is how fast you are growing. We build out in spurts. > > I may add 10 towers in a three month period. As soon as marketing in > that area hits, growth is usually pretty fast. > > The second biggest factor is how slow new bandwidth is to light up. I > just lit up a 1G fiber link to Dallas and the reality of it was almost > 1 year from beginning to live port in my NOC. > > Even 50 Meg pipes around here are about 7 months from negotiation to > bandwidth available. This is to a facility with 72 strands of fiber > in place already. No real buildout (trench, bury). > > At our growth rate, we usually start negotiating at about 50% of > capacity. Now that we are selling 50M and 100M+ pipes to other ISPs > and organizations, I may start even earlier since bigger blocks are > going at once. > > Hope it helps. > > Marco > -- Marco C. Coelho Argon Technologies Inc. POB 875 Greenville, TX 75403-0875 903-455-5036 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
