In the US, I worked for a local computer store - it basically had all the Jewish Community's business -
Anyway, one room of the store was an ISP - It was 2 racks - one for servers, the other for network. Server rack had COTS desktops running BSD (I think) - 2 * (mail, DNS, RADIUS,News) servers It was dial-up internet, so he had (I guess) a leased line from a telephone bank off-site. My point is that the whole operation was one room - those 2 racks and 3 desks covering phone support and sys admins. ISP'ing, at least in the US *can* be done on a smallish scale - on the order of a few hundred customers. On 7/9/07, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 09/07/07, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 08:01:50PM +0300, David Smith wrote: > > If I understand correctly, in order to set up an small ISP, the > > following infrastructure would be needed: > > > > A connection to at least one bigger ISP, and preferably also to IIX. > > A server to handle DNS/mail/accounting etc and possibly routing > > Optional: a dedicated hardware router > > An 'ISP' connection to Bezeq and Hot. > > You forgot an ISP license from whatever ministry issues them. > > This requires a lot of money. The cheapest way to do it is to buy > an existing licensed ISP. That's how BEZEQ BENLUMI did it, they bought > ISDNNET which got their license by buying a previous ISP. > > I know Orange was refused a license, I don't know how they eventually > got one. I didn't quite follow the entire discussion from top to bottom, but is there an option to become a reseller? That way you get the basic infrastructure from an approved ISP but create your own brand and support lines. Not sure it makes sense, especially in the Israeli context, but apparently it's common in other parts of the world. --Amos
