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Re: ISP operational question

  • From: Brian W.
  • Date: Tue Dec 12 18:20:32 2000

True I hadn't considered setting your aim at customers who need a t1 or
less and a /27, guess gaining experience in Ca. has its effects.
	
	Brian   

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Shawn McMahon wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:59:11AM -0800, Brian W. wrote:
> > 
> > > Now here is the question. What choices does the regional ISP have when 
> > > implementing routing and IP addressing? I assume the regional ISP will not 
> > > implement BGP, since there will only be one maybe two upstream connections 
> > > to a single NSP - initially.
> > You will have a marketing problem with this.  Customers would like to see
> > you connected to more than 1 nsp.  Also, you sooner or later will get a
> > customer that wants to multihome to you and another company.  So, you'll
> > really need to think about getting an as and running bgp I believe. 
> 
> You're assuming a lot about his region.
> 
> Plug any rural Oklahoma county in there, and his model is what's done.
> 
>