That's pretty much the best honest answer.
If all else fail, sell it or leased it to someone whom can do that.
On 10/11/14 10:35 pm, Rob Seastrom wrote:
While short and to the point, what Fletcher said is likely to be the
best advice in this thread.
Getting someone on staff who understands *both* outside plant
architecture and balance sheets... and can co-develop a business
model that involves the lateral build-out from the six POPs around
town without going broke is the hard part.
"Six POPs, six strands, MPLS backbone vs. selling waves" could be the
concept for the opening lines to a sad country song where the
protagonist doesn't realize that the long pole in the tent is the
making the edge work (someone please run with this and get a musical
lightning talk at San Antonio!)
-r
Faisal Imtiaz <fai...@snappytelecom.net> writes:
WoW !.. that was a rather cruel and un-called for !
How does that saying go.....Don't say anything, if you cannot say anything nice
!
Faisal Imtiaz
Snappy Internet & Telecom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fletcher Kittredge" <fkitt...@gwi.net>
To: "Lorell Hathcock" <lor...@hathcock.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2014 9:56:08 PM
Subject: Re: I am about to inherit 26 miles of dark fiber. What do I do with it?
The below is a really sad story. Condolences on the coming trainwreck. I
hope you get someone on staff or on consult that understands outside plant
architecture, because it is much more important and complex topic than you
seem to realize.
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Lorell Hathcock <lor...@hathcock.org> wrote:
All:
A job opportunity just came my way to work with 26 miles of dark fiber in
and around a city in Texas.
The intent is for me to deliver internet and private network services to
business customers in this area.
I relish the thought of starting from scratch to build a network right
from the start instead of inheriting and fixing someone else's mess.
That being said, what suggestions does the group have for building a new
network using existing dark fiber?
MPLS backbone? Like all businesses these days, I will likely have to
build the lit backbone as I add customers. So how would you recommend
scaling the network?
I have six strands of SMF that connect within municipal facilities. Each
new customer will be a new build out from the nearest point. Because of
having only six strands, I don't anticipate selling dark fiber. I believe I
need to conserve fibers so that it would be lit services that I offer to
customers.
I would like to offer speeds up to 10 GB.
Thoughts are appreciated!
Sincerely,
Lorell Hathcock
--
Fletcher Kittredge
GWI
8 Pomerleau Street
Biddeford, ME 04005-9457
207-602-1134
