Jared; What you are trying to do is quite achievable, but a huge topic worthy of a book, not an email post. Also, situations vary significantly between states due to incumbents, regulatory regimes, and level of state support. NANOG is a bad place to get advice about this topic. There are many other venues with literally thousands of other organizations/groups/companies on the same path as you. I would start from the FTTH Council, Next Century Cities, Institute for Local Self-Reliance and work out from there.
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Jared Mauch <ja...@puck.nether.net> wrote: > I’m looking for some advice/input from people either public or private > about woes building fiber to reach people outside the footprints of the > existing incumbents. > > There is a group of people looking to organize private fiber to reach > areas that are unserved. > > There’s been recent local people doing this like Lightspeed (Lansing) and > the Vergennes Broadband folks. > > When it come to private right of way, public right of way use, swaps, pole > attach and other things, any best practices people can share either in > public or private? > > TL;DR background for those interested: > > Many wireless ISPs are finding it harder to locate equipment or > utilize frequencies based on interference or congestion. Advanced > encodings like 16-QAM that are seen in 802.11ac hardware also introduce > latencies that are not ideal. The FCC is also making it harder for > equipment to be qualified in this space, in some cases rightly so due to > out of band emissions or just adjacent frequency noise. The revisions of > rules in 5Ghz are helpful, but the cellular industry is also looking to > exploit these frequencies to solve indoor coverage. > > There are two groups I’m trying to assist, a local cooperative > which is trying to just own the fiber and let providers gain access and > some WISPs that are looking to improve service due to increase customer > demand. > > Getting service on the fiber is “easy” once it’s there, but > gaining access or building it is the part I’m looking for insights in. > > - Jared > > -- Fletcher Kittredge GWI 8 Pomerleau Street Biddeford, ME 04005-9457 207-602-1134
