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Re: DOs and DONTs for small ISP
From: Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 13:48:33 +0000
I’m constantly amazed at the number of even medium-sized ISPs that have no network monitoring. An NMS should go in as the first software component — before billing starts and the provider is on the hook to deliver. The second lacking component is a ticket system, which is silly because turnkey cloud services are not expensive, and open source solutions abound for budget-limited operators. The third component failure is security, including weak and default (!) passwords, failure to use real certificates, and the complete lack of 2FA or MFA. Security also requires data surveillance, in the form of net flow analysis. The “two guys and a router” business model must be upgraded with more planning and a cohesive operating plan. -mel
On Jun 3, 2019, at 5:05 AM, Mehmet Akcin <mehmet () akcin net> wrote: hi there, I know there are folks from lots of small ISPs here and I wanted to check-in on asking few advice points as I am involved building an ISP from green-field. Usually, it's pretty straight forward to cover high-level important things, filters, routing policies, etc.but we all know the devil is in the details. I am putting together a public DOs and DONTs blog post and would love to hear from those who have built ISPs and have recommendations from Billing to Interconnection, Routing policy to Out of the band & console setup, Software recommendations, etc. Bottom line is that I would like to publish a checklist with these recommendations which I hope will be useful for all. thanks in advance for your help and recommendation. Mehmet
Current thread:
- DOs and DONTs for small ISP Mehmet Akcin (Jun 03)
- Re: DOs and DONTs for small ISP Cummings, Chris (Jun 03)
- Re: DOs and DONTs for small ISP Mel Beckman (Jun 03)
- Re: DOs and DONTs for small ISP Jared Mauch (Jun 03)
- Re: DOs and DONTs for small ISP William Waites (Jun 05)
- Re: DOs and DONTs for small ISP William Herrin (Jun 05)
- Re: DOs and DONTs for small ISP Jon Lewis (Jun 03)
- Re: DOs and DONTs for small ISP Brandon Martin (Jun 03)
- Re: DOs and DONTs for small ISP Warren Kumari (Jun 04)
- Re: DOs and DONTs for small ISP Mehmet Akcin (Jun 04)
- Re: DOs and DONTs for small ISP Randy Bush (Jun 04)
- Re: DOs and DONTs for small ISP Baldur Norddahl (Jun 05)
- Re: DOs and DONTs for small ISP Brandon Martin (Jun 03)