On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 02:10:29PM -0400, hass...@hushmail.com wrote: > No one replied with any useful information. I guess no one wants > competition on this list? Pretty poor tactic. > > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:55:01 -0400 hass...@hushmail.com wrote: > >I want to begin making my own ISP, mainly for high speed servers > >and such, but also branching out to residential customers. I'm > >going to be in Germany for the next school year (probably either > >Frankfurt am Main or Berlin); any suggestions on what sort of > >classes I can take there that will be in English and will teach me > > > >all I need to know on how to build and manage my own ISP, AS, etc? > > > >Thanks. >
"... First, You make a roux!" - Julia Childs Clearly its not a easy/simple as it used to be but its not rocket science either. you have to decide where you want to start; eyeballs, content, or get others to defray the cost of yur access. Once you select which target you are after, then you can pick your gear. I am going to presume OSS and fully depricated kit to keep your costs down and to boost your learning skills. On the presumption you want to run BGP I suggest you invest in some colo space at/near a public internet exchange w/ a large number of players.. SIX was good, Telx was good, and the S&D pops were as well - at least four/five years ago. slip you old HP laptop into the rack and buy a cross connect to the exchange fabric. replace the OS on the laptop w/ FreeBSD or CentOS, from ports, add SSH and Quagga. Chat up potential peers at the exchange and see whom will peer w/ you using a Private ASN. Contact ARIN or third party broker to lease some IP space and an ASN. If you can't find/justify the resources 'cause your just starting out, there is private space and private ASN. Configure Quagga w/ the obtained ASN and announce the IP prefix(es). TaDa ... You are an ISP! /bill