Ok, I'll bite... Don't start buying equipment yet. The technical component of an ISP is only one very small part of a big picture. If you're seriously thinking about starting an ISP, you first need to write a business plan that delineates your idea, your potential market, your competition, your management team, your organizational structure, your cashflow analysis, your initial funding, and your exit strategy. This includes a full and honest SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis. Once you've refined your plan, show it to people who know a lot more about running a business than you do. Go visit SCORE (look them up in the phone book) and be prepared to rewrite everything you've written. Once you've got a final product, then you're going to need funding. Remember, you need to account for more than the technical equipment. You'll have to consider rents, leases, insurance, utilities, payroll, taxes, etc. Once you've got the funding, you can bring on qualified management and engineers (read experienced in this field) and let them decide on the particular equipment you'll need. If this sounds like too much to tackle, then you're not ready to run your own business. On the other hand, if you're financially well off (rich) and are determined to go forward anyway, I'll be glad to walk you down the path for a fee. ;-)
Good luck, Craig At 02:35 PM 3/1/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Does anyone have a list of equipment for a company to become and ISP? I >also want to buy a class of IP addresses and host them myself. Is there >a link on Cisco to help someone like myself get started. Any help on >this topic would be appreciated. I really don't know where to start .... Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=37110&t=37006 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
