Re: Starting a greenfield(ish) small (10k subs?) multihomed (two ASN) , dual stacked, wireless ISP - i can haz advice?

[hayden <paul.basov () gmail com>]

Sorry, no feedback from me.. I have couple of questions though, how much licensing do you need to go through, to 
actually start a WISP?
Also, Kansas.. Are you concerned that you’ll have to compete with Google Fiber at some point?

On 23 Jul 2014, at 20:58, charles () thefnf org wrote:

> Hey everybody,
>
> So all this talk about monopolies, small ISPs vs the big bad netflix  , muni fiber etc etc has been interesting. Lots 
> and lots of talk, lots of interesting links etc.
>
> I'm an action/results oriented individual, and have been working on actually building out a grassroots ISP, instead 
> of just talking about it. :)
>
> Over the past year or so, I've been involved with an effort to launch a community ISP in the Kansas City MO area. 
> It's got several towers up now and a decent amount of users. It's been funded by the community that it serves. Feel 
> free to ask any questions you have about the details. It's an open network in all aspects (design, business model 
> etc). It is intentionally designed/operated in such a way that all aspects can be disclosed.
>
> We are now ready to take the next step and obtain an ASN and v6 space (also looks like we can get a /24 of v4 space 
> as well).
>
> What are the things that we should do before we get those resources? What should we do immediately after? What 
> books/rfc/bcp should we be most familiar with?
>
> As is typical of many small outfits, we have an incredibly high degree of software skill, and a limited budget which 
> goes entirely to hardware.
>
> This is a greenfield network. We've got Ubiquiti gear for the backbone. Running a mix of QMP routers with BMX6 as the 
> IGP linked over AirOS l2 bridge "pseudowires". We'll be homed to two AS upstreams. Using pfSense as the WAN edge 
> routers.
>
> From all my reading of the list, it seems like key things to do in this scenario:
>
> 1) Have full flow telemetry at all points to help with (D)DOS mitigation.
> 2) Do CGN in pools (so perhaps ~500 to 1k users behind each IP)?
> 3) Provision a /56 of v6 space to each end user. I was thinking of having the CPE with CeroWRT and be multi SSID with 
> a /64 per. I'm interested in folks thoughts on this?
> 4) Upsell a public v4 address if someone requires it
> 5) Of course implement bcp38
>
> I'm mostly interested in technical feedback. Business model etc type feedback is welcome as well, but not the primary 
> purpose of this message. :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Charles Wyble
> CTO Free Network Foundation