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

[Brian W.]

green bean wrote:
> could someone please explain to me how to connect directly to the 
> internet backbone?
> or to buy bandwidth at a wholesale price?
> my goal would be to plan a WISP [wireless internet service provider]
> with enough bandwidth both up and down that
> one thousand customers could each have broadband service more or less
> equal to a cheap DSL connection of 0.5 MBPS. lets assume only 
> one-fourth of the
> customers are online during internet rush hour. so 250 x 0.5 MBPS = 
> 125 MBPS
> which is why i would like to directly connect to the internet backbone 
> at a wholesale price
> much less than if i had to buy [retail priced] bandwidth 6MBPS at a time.
> how is that done?
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If you want to actually be a "core provider" you may want to consider 
running connections to multiple providers and run BGP to get routes from 
all of them, or buy from a provider like Internap that does this.  If 
you want to be a wireless ISP you also need to deal with transmitting 
the signal, geography and buildings have a huge impact there.

Brian