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

[John Floren]

Do NE ABQ first! :) I'm dealing with CenturyLink and it's the worst.

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:19 PM, John Brown <john at citylinkfiber.com> wrote:
> 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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