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Design and Construction of Local and Regional Exchange Facilities

Design and Construction of Local and Regional Exchange Facilities. Version 0.2 February, 2001 Bill Woodcock Packet Clearing House. Determining Need. Sufficient end-user base? No existing facility to build upon? Sufficient degree of locally-destined traffic?. Geographic Location.

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Design and Construction of Local and Regional Exchange Facilities

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  1. Design and Constructionof Local and Regional Exchange Facilities Version 0.2 February, 2001 Bill Woodcock Packet Clearing House

  2. Determining Need • Sufficient end-user base? • No existing facility to build upon? • Sufficient degree of locally-destined traffic?

  3. Geographic Location • User population • Fiber facilities or rights-of-way • Founding participants

  4. Density • Centralized in one room • Campus of adjacent buildings • MAN • Frame or ATM cloud

  5. Building Management • Telco hotel • University computing or telecommunications facility • City emergency services facility

  6. In-Building Facilities • Pathways • Power • Cooling • Access and security

  7. Services • Switch fabric • Crossconnects • Route-server • Remote hands • NTP • Web caching

  8. Business Structure • Incorporated or unincorporated? • Staffed or volunteer? • Non-profit or for-profit? • Cooperative or external ownership? • Cost-recovery (predictive or actuals), ad-hoc, or market pricing?

  9. Policies • BLP, MLPA or MMPLA? • Mandatory looking-glass? • Routing and switch-port information public or members-only? • Secrecy in the event of security problems, failures, or mistakes • Extensible switch fabric?

  10. Bill Woodcock woody@pch.net www.pch.net/documents/tutorials/ep-construction

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