[98408] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: bandwidth for PyCon 08 in Chicago
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David E. Smith)
Tue Aug 7 21:34:59 2007
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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 20:34:19 -0500 (CDT)
From: "David E. Smith" <dave@mvn.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, August 7, 2007 6:48 pm, Carl Karsten wrote:
> 1. bandwidth for PyCon, and no one else. This is the easiest, but most
> costly.
> (20k ish total)
That seems awfully high for a short-term hookup, though from the rest of
the email I'm guessing you're mainly looking at wireline hookups. Have you
shopped around for a short-term wireless link?
If you can get on the roof of the hotel, and the roof of someone else
nearby that has more bandwidth, and point a pair of radios at each other,
that's probably do-able for far less than 20k.
In Chicago, the folks at CW Lab (www.cwlab.com) may be able to get you
started. They're more of a consulting firm now, from the looks of their
Web site, but they've done things like this before, and they're local to
Chicago; if they can't help they probably know someone who can.
David Smith
MVN.net
