[183418] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FTTP Advice, Michigan and other areas
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fletcher Kittredge)
Tue Sep 1 18:59:08 2015
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In-Reply-To: <87820B68-BAFB-41CC-B47D-E45C1ED85C92@puck.nether.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 18:54:40 -0400
From: Fletcher Kittredge <fkittred@gwi.net>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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 <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
> I=E2=80=99m looking for some advice/input from people either public or pr=
ivate
> 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 (Lans=
ing) and
> the Vergennes Broadband folks.
>
> When it come to private right of way, public right of way use, swaps, pol=
e
> 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 cooper=
ative
> 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=99m looking for insight=
s in.
>
> - Jared
>
>
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