ISP Infedelity / Touchy-Feelly Photons

[R P Herrold]

On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, kitepilot at kitepilot.com wrote:

> I too run a wireless ISP.

hmmm ... an ISP I consulted at tried deployment of a non FCC 
type certified 802.11 solution a few years ago, but I was 
uneasy with their casual attitude, and certainly did not 
understand the business model.  Goodness, that was late 
2000.  They are gone now.

Another I worked with used the Motorola kit which is duly 
licensed, but it seemed too fragile around lightning and 
again, they are now gone.

> I could use some help shaping my line though...

I assume you mean the non-connectivity part.  That is the 
anchor which makes the case for using a local, rather than a 
national 'rackshack'

> Enrique
>
> PS: My ISP runs exclusively in Linux.  Mostly LFS.

As the customer is always right, we offer whatever the 
customer wants on the colo side of the shop; the Windows boxes 
are in migration into virtual instances, so we can move them 
between datacenters, after a local week long power outage 
exposed problems in one 'data hotel's backup power 
implementation.

For hysterical, historical reasons, billing is in Optigold 
(OS/X), but we batch post process invoice images, etc into 
well-named PDFs, and then out to the site, and back onto Linux 
hardware.  An ancient Sun running SunOS 2.4 <?> was still 
doing DNS and the cutomer provisioning code (written back in 
1994 <?>) in perl 4 until a re-write earlier this year. 
Linux everywhere else (CentOS actually) of course.

-- Russ herrold