RE: New home builders without wires

2025-01-06 Thread Colin Stanners (lists)
In our area of Canada, the electrical company has a "shared trench" agreement, where ISPs (who have done the paperwork and have elected to get involved in X project in a Y subdivision) have access to put their own conduit in while the trenches are dug for electrical, or they can pay the same contra

RE: Need Centurylink contact for serious ongoing issue

2024-12-16 Thread Colin Stanners (lists)
> I wonder if sat services like Starlink or Hughsnet are an option for > remote/rural towns in this kind of scenario. There's usually a few options for people with money or some technical knowledge - in addition to those, local WISPs or other ISPs are usually a better option, and sometimes cell

RE: New home builders without wires

2024-12-04 Thread Colin Stanners (lists)
For residential builds' TV, in many regards there is still nothing that has all of coax's advantages. Very cheap to buy cable Cable can survive a good bit of mishandling, pulling on ends, being stepped on etc. Cheap / simple to install and repair (outside of edge cases) Massive base of existing

Locating Cambium's Chinese plastics supplier

2022-08-09 Thread Colin Stanners (lists)
Greetings NANOG, a rare request here, I apologize that it is distanced from the usual network routing/design/administration areas of focus... posted on AFMUG too but NANOG seems to have many more people knowledgeable in the upstream manufacturing of devices. If there's anywhere else where there is

RE: SaoPaolo to Frankfurt

2020-07-13 Thread Colin Stanners (lists)
Looking at the Wikipedia article, it claims that Atlantis-2 “can already be upgraded with current technology to 160Gbit/s”. Would be interesting why that wasn’t already done on this 20-year-old cable – assuming that the underground infrastructure (repeaters) are compatible with the newer modula

RE: Effects of Cold Front on Internet Infrastructure - U.S. Midwest

2019-01-31 Thread Colin Stanners (lists)
Out here in Manitoba we use unheated/no-electricity OSP fiber patch panel pedestals in some locations, those work without issue down to the occasional -40. Note that that’s using all high-quality components. For Fletcher’s case, it’s also possible that: -there had been water intrusion in a s

RE: China Showdown Huawei vs ZTE

2018-04-24 Thread Colin Stanners (lists)
Colton, can you post some examples of the Whitebox/OS examples that you were looking at in that performance tier? -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Colton Conor Sent: Friday, April 20, 2018 7:46 AM To: Josh Reynolds Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: China