[SCFN] ITS ALL ABOUT THE BACKBONE - THE INTERNET BACKBONE

Tue Apr 28 10:52:32 PDT 2009

The Tubes are full!!!

Fundamentally, there is no "Core Backbone" for the internet.  It is a
conglomeration of multiple private carriers, who 'peer' at public and
private points using the BGP protocol. (See: NAP, MAE-WEST, etc)

if you want to connect to 'the core Internet' you'll need to get a circuit
from a "Tier-1" carrier - i.e. ATT, Level (3), etc.. and then you will be
as close as you can get to 'the core'.

as for high-speed connections - these days, you can get good pricing from
multiple Tier-1 or Tier-2 carriers for 100Mbps circuits into a colocation
facility, or anywhere that's on their networks (see: ON-NET). depending on
how many sites you want to branch out to for coverage, it can get quite
pricy quite quickly.

But as an example, you can get many carriers to extend their fiber
footprint into your facility based on spend and term commitment - I have
Cox trenching and doing a 3000' fiber build into one of my buildings based
on a $10,500/mo spend commit on a 36 month term.  That's for a dedicated
100Mbps circuit to Mexico. For Internet, you can get alot of services
quite a bit cheaper - currently, I can get 1000Mbps wire to the internet
with a 100mbps CIR for $3000/mo.

So look around - if you want to play in the Enterprise market, let me know
and I can introduce you to some of my salespeople.

--Steve

Brian Whalen wrote:
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>   <div dir="ltr">could someone please explain to me how to connect
> directly to the internet backbone?<br>
> or to buy bandwidth at a wholesale price?<br>
> my goal would be to plan a WISP [wireless internet service provider]<br>
> with enough bandwidth both up and down that <br>
> one thousand customers could each have broadband service more or less<br>
> equal to a cheap DSL connection of 0.5 MBPS. lets assume only
> one-fourth of the <br>
> customers are online during internet rush hour. so 250 x 0.5 MBPS = 125
> MBPS<br>
> which is why i would like to directly connect to the internet backbone
> at a wholesale price <br>
> much less than if i had to buy [retail priced] bandwidth 6MBPS at a
> time. <br>
> how is that done?<br>
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> Either connect to multiple providers and get an AS number and speak BGP
> to several providers, or connect to a single provider that does this
> already, some emphasize carrier neutrality, Internap was the defacto
> standard in the past for this, I don't know about now.<br>
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> Brian<br>
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