recommend links, books, periodicals(magazines) for isp wannabe

http://www22.verizon.com/regulatory/files/1308tar.pdf

Verizon has a "wire center", dsl end users get their
dsl to that point, then to be a dsl isp, does one get
something like ds3/oc3 from the wire center to their
gateway?

Alternately, would Broadwing etc have an "office link"
in the "wire center" and offer equivalent OC3 to an
isp? "Office link" is listed as $125 OC3 $180 OC12
which of course wouldn't include the alternate ATM
carrier's charges. It looks Verizon takes half up
front there.

Then would an isp either route customer traffic right
back down the same line to the backbone, or out
another way(ds3/oc3 to internet)? I would consider
doing that, having an alternate way out, but it's
not a 50/50 split because most dsl customers are
pulling down more data so it would not pay to have
that alternate route out.

What's that pvc pvp stuff, I hope that isn't for dsl
customer connects to the isp?

And how about "access link", that's a big charge
whatever that is, in the atm service context?

How many dsl customers can be estimated to be
served by ATM on DS3? OC3?

I'm in the "former GTE area".

-Bob Dodds

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Received on Fri Apr 8 00:13:28 2005