[176048] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: I am about to inherit 26 miles of dark fiber. What do I do with
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen Massar)
Tue Nov 11 00:59:36 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:40:54 +0100
From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@massar.ch>
To: Rob Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>, Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappytelecom.net>
In-Reply-To: <86ioint96l.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Cc: Fletcher Kittredge <fkittred@gwi.net>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 2014-11-10 15:35, 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!)
+1 on both the good advice and the proposal of the musical talk :)
Greets,
Jeroen
