On Tue April 27 2010 09:00, Charles Bronson wrote: > Looking for advice... > > I live in central / western New York state (think villages and farms). > There are a good number of hills but no mountains. I have solid LAN > experience and experience facing a smaller network to the Internet. I was > network admin for a medium size enterprise network (I.e. design and > implementation including LAN, Internet connectivity, VPN, routers, DNS, > mail, webservers, physical servers, etc). I would like to build a local ISP > that can serve high speed internet access to the more rural areas whose > only option is dial up access, well away from the CO. It would also be nice > to compete with the cable company and DSL for customers in the villages. > > I have been researching information for design / implementation of WiMAX, > equipment suppliers, contractors to help with installation of tower > equipment and acquiring tower space, but have been coming up empty handed. > > What resources are available to help me bridge the gap from where I am to > what I need to know to get started and what specific technologies would you > recommend I bone up on? I know beyond the WiMAX specific information, I > will probably need to cozy up to BGP, maybe MPLS for traffic between the > core and towers? Also do you have any suggestions on where I can find > suppliers and service vendors in this field? Networks are my passion and am > willing to dig in, but I need some direction. > > Thanks for you help an insight. > > Charles Bronson
Recommend you look at www.wispa.org (Wireless Internet Service Providers Association). Probably have loads of information and resources to get you pointed in the right direction... -- Larry Smith lesm...@ecsis.net
