[1st-mile-nm] This is what a Gig looks like or Another Gig building in downtown ABQ

[John Brown]

We would love to serve the Santa Fe market.  We get around 35 to 40
requests each week.
Either for fiber based or fixed wireless based services.
We have to decline them all because of the silly rules that Santa Fe
has in place.

Several years ago, when Santa Fe put out  a bid for a fiber project,
we submitted a proposal.
For the $1M in tax payer money we proposed a RING based system (redundancy).

Instead the City awarded the project to another company that:
a) had never built or operated an outside fiber plant / network
b) only built a straight line, no redundancy, no ring.

This was of course after spending 5 years attempting to get the City
to even engage and work
towards a franchise agreement.  We had to make a threat to sue the
City for failing to act on
our request.  Only then did the City respond, but in a way that cause
the City to get sued AGAIN by CenturyLink.  I might add that
CenturyLink was correct in litigating and defending its rights against
a poorly written set of rules from the City.

Then there are the City's wireless rules. If you read them and truly
follow them, then every WISP in Santa Fe should be filing for permits
and paying the fees.

So, if at some point City of Santa Fe, or its people, want to discuss
how to move forward, I'm all ears and willing to find a good solution.



On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:
> I hate you! :)
>
> So whataya gotta do to get this in Santa Fe? I'm thinking about the second
> street area, Lena St lofts and other office complexes.
>
> Then I'd love ya.
>
>    -- Owen
>
> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 2:14 PM, John Brown <john at citylinkfiber.com> wrote:
>>
>> Just connected another building in downtown ABQ with a Gig of service.
>> This speed test is via a NAT'd connection, so the slight drop in speed
>> is because
>> of the clients NAT router..
>>
>> http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6290260546
>>
>> All using open source based tools, technologies and products.
>>
>> using simple passive optics we can upgrade the building to 10Gig, by
>> simply changing out
>> the SFP's to SFP+.  About $200 in cost to do that......
>>
>> What is really neat is we will shortly be leveraging Juniper's vSRX
>> platform to handle network security on a per port basis for each
>> tenant in the building.  This will save the customer on
>> firewall hardware / maint costs.  They also won't have to do
>> technology upgrades every few years.
>> Another huge savings.
>>
>> Coming soon (like 2 weeks) we will turn up our first 2.5Gb/s wireless
>> link to a commercial tenant,
>> followed by a 5Gb/s link in June
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