North American Network Operators Group
Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical

Re: bandwidth for PyCon 08 in Chicago

  • From: David E. Smith
  • Date: Tue Aug 07 21:38:12 2007 
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