[183406] in North American Network Operators' Group
FTTP Advice, Michigan and other areas
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Tue Sep 1 16:28:57 2015
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From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 16:27:55 -0400
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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I=E2=80=99m 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=E2=80=99s 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=E2=80=99m 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 =E2=80=9Ceasy=E2=80=9D once =
it=E2=80=99s there, but gaining access or building it is the part I=E2=80=99=
m looking for insights in.
- Jared
