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1. Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd) (Antonio Querubin) 2. Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd) (Larry Sheldon) 3. Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd) (Kevin Oberman) 4. Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd) (Kevin Oberman) 5. RE: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg) (Warren Bailey) 6. Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd) (Joel Jaeggli) 7. RE: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg) (Akyol, Bora A)
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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 09:12:58 -1000 (HST) From: "Antonio Querubin" <tony@lava.net> Subject: Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd) To: <lir@uralttk.ru> Cc: lir@uralttk.ru, nanog@nanog.org, members-discuss@ripe.net Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1003010910140.143@cust11794.lava.net> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII"
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Owen DeLong wrote:
On Mar 1, 2010, at 11:55 PM, Adam Waite wrote:
Not since 1992......what you're looking for these days is NIPRnet and SIPRnet, and ESnet, etc, etc, etc.
Um, actually, I would say that in all of those cases, including ARPANET when it existed, you are dealing with a government sponsored network rather than a government run network.
Generally, in each of those cases, the government provides some or all of the money to keep the network going, but, has very little to do with dictating policy or operational aspects of the network.
I think DISA and DoD would argue about that claim with regard to NIPRNet and SIPRNet :)
Antonio Querubin 808-545-5282 x3003 e-mail/xmpp: tony@lava.net
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Message: 2 Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:09:51 -0600 From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net> Subject: Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd) Cc: nanog@nanog.org Message-ID: <4B8C1F0F.6080102@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On 3/1/2010 12:53 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:04:19 -0600 Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote:
On 3/1/2010 9:55 AM, Adam Waite wrote:
Hm, I was under the impression that ARPANET was a government run network...
Not since 1992......what you're looking for these days is NIPRnet and SIPRnet, and ESnet, etc, etc, etc.
ARPANET only lives on in reverse dns.....
And that is only the TLD label.
Is there still a DARPANET, ARPANET's successor?
Depends on what you mean.
I meant "is there still a DARPAnet" separate and apart from its progeny, fragments, and follow-ons. -- "Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have."
Remember: The Ark was built by amateurs, the Titanic by professionals.
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Message: 3 Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:30:24 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Subject: Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd) To: Adam Waite <awaite@tuenti.com> Cc: nanog@nanog.org, lir@uralttk.ru, members-discuss@ripe.net Message-ID: <20100301213024.597291CC13@ptavv.es.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:55:43 +0100 From: Adam Waite <awaite@tuenti.com>
Hm, I was under the impression that ARPANET was a government run network...
Not since 1992......what you're looking for these days is NIPRnet and SIPRnet, and ESnet, etc, etc, etc.
While ESnet is funded by the Department of Energy and they certainly define the strategic policy of ESnet, they don't make design decisions nor get involved with the technical end of the network.
ESnet is run by the University of California's Berkeley Lab under contract to the DOE. This may sound like hair splitting, but it is really very different from Fednets like NIPR and SIPR (and many, many others) including the Department of Energy's own DOEnet. Note that DOEnet is used for DOE business operations while ESnet is use support DOE funded research. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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Message: 4 Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:30:24 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Subject: Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd) To: <lir@uralttk.ru> Cc: nanog@nanog.org, lir@uralttk.ru, members-discuss@ripe.net Message-ID: <20100301213024.597291CC13@ptavv.es.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:55:43 +0100 From: Adam Waite <awaite@tuenti.com>
Hm, I was under the impression that ARPANET was a government run network...
Not since 1992......what you're looking for these days is NIPRnet and SIPRnet, and ESnet, etc, etc, etc.
While ESnet is funded by the Department of Energy and they certainly define the strategic policy of ESnet, they don't make design decisions nor get involved with the technical end of the network.
ESnet is run by the University of California's Berkeley Lab under contract to the DOE. This may sound like hair splitting, but it is really very different from Fednets like NIPR and SIPR (and many, many others) including the Department of Energy's own DOEnet. Note that DOEnet is used for DOE business operations while ESnet is use support DOE funded research. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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Message: 5 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 15:19:38 -0900 From: Warren Bailey <wbailey@gci.com> Subject: RE: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg) To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org> Message-ID: <5B3743FC2D0D8B41B27EE4F5EACA79D10D23C143@DTN1EX01.gci.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
How do you think we feel in Alaska. Until mid last year, most cellular BTS were backhauled via DS1. Only Within the last 12 months have we (insert obligatory "I work for a GSM and CDMA cellular provider serving most of Alaska") even migrated from Local copper to fiber or air interfaces (ds1/ds3 microwave).
I've always been curious as to why the people who aren't being served with "broadband" type of services haven't made a larger fuss about this. The idea of running a copper pair to a home should have died long ago, IMHO. As an RF Engineer, I see everyone turning to fiber and dry loops when it's just not necessary or even cost effective. Put up the *LICENSED* loop and call it a day.. Or a 5.8 RAD shot when you feel like rolling the deice. Either way, cellular isn't the drop dead answer to solving a sparsely covered area.
About 95% of my state is not covered by cellular, but we've had no problems deploying the largest cellular (rural obviously) provider in the United States - just look up. It's not as expensive as you would think.
//warren
Warren Bailey GCI Communication Corp. RF Network Engineering 907.868.5911 office 907.903.5410 mobile
-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Senie [mailto:dts@senie.com] Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 3:21 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)
Hopefully someone will bother to cover the rural areas with cell service eventually.
Much of western Massachusetts (by which I mean the Berkshires, more than I mean the Pioneer Valley) is not covered by cell service. Where there is cell service, most cell sites have only minimal data speeds. Vermont is far worse, as is much of Maine. If there were 3G cellular, it'd be a big step up. But I expect the inner cities will all be running LTE for years before more rural areas even get voice service.
On Feb 26, 2010, at 6:04 PM, Haney, Wilson wrote:
As we all know it's expensive building out any landline network. Rural areas just get over looked.
Check out this tech coming out of Motorola and to a Verizon/ATT tower near you soon.
100 Mbps possible off cellular signals. Looks like they will throttle it to 20 Mbps and less though.
http://business.motorola.com/experiencelte/lte-depth.html
http://news.techworld.com/networking/3203498/motorola-predicts-20mbps- download-speed-with-future-lte-networks/
WPH
-----Original Message----- From: Crooks, Sam [mailto:Sam.Crooks@experian.com] Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 4:51 PM To: Michael Sokolov; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)
I had good luck getting my dad some form of broadband access in rural Oregon using a 3g router (Cradlepoint), a Wilson Electronics signal amp (model 811211), and an outdoor mount high gain antenna. It's not great, but considering the alternatives (33.6k dialup for $60/mo or satellite broadband for $150-$200/mo) it wasn't a bad deal for my dad when you consider that the dialup ISP + dedicated POTS line cost about
as much as the 5GB 3G data plan does.
Speed is somewhere between dialup and Uverse or FIOS. I get the sense that it is somewhere in the range of 256 - 512 kbps with high latency (Dad's not one for much in the way of network performance testing).
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Sokolov [mailto:msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG] Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 3:35 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)
Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com> wrote:
Better than western Massachusetts, where there's just no connectivity at = all. Even dialup fails to function over crappy lines.
Hmm. Although I've never been to Western MA and hence have no idea what the telecom situation is like over there, I'm certainly aware of
quite a few places in "first world USA" where DSL is still a fantasy,
let alone fiber.
As a local example, I have a friend in a rural area of Southern California who can't get any kind of "high-speed Internet". I've run a prequal on her address and it tells me she is 31 kft from the CO. The CO in question has a Covad DSLAM in it, but at 31 kft those rural
residents' options are limited to either IDSL at 144 kbps (not much point in that) or a T1 starting at ~$700/month. The latter figure is
typically well out of range for the kind of people who live in such places.
That got me thinking: ISDN/IDSL and T1 can be extended infinitely far
into the boondocks because those signal formats support repeaters. What I'm wondering is how can we do the same thing with SDSL - and I mean politically rather than technically. The technical part is easy: some COs already have CLECs in them that serve G.shdsl (I've been told that NEN does that) and for G.shdsl repeaters are part of the standard (searching around shows a few vendors making them); in the case of SDSL/2B1Q (Covad and DSL.net) there is no official support for repeaters and hence no major vendors making such, but I can build
such a repeater unofficially.
The difficulty is with the political part, and that's where I'm seeking the wisdom of this list. How would one go about sticking a mid-span repeater into an ILEC-owned 31 kft rural loop? From what I understand (someone please correct me if I'm wrong!), when a CLEC orders a loop from an ILEC, if it's for a T1 or IDSL, the CLEC actually orders a T1 or ISDN BRI transport from the ILEC rather than a dry pair, and any mid-span repeaters or HDSLx converters or the like become the responsibility of the ILEC rather than the CLEC, right?
So how could one extend this model to provide, say, repeatered G.shdsl service to far-outlying rural subscribers? Is there some political process (PUC/FCC/etc) by which an ILEC could be forced to allow a third party to stick a repeater in the middle of their loop? Or would it have to work by way of the ILEC providing a G.shdsl transport service
to CLECs, with the ILEC being responsible for the selection, procurement and deployment of repeater hardware? And what if the ILEC is not interested in providing such a service - any PUC/FCC/etc political process via which they could be forced to cooperate?
Things get even more complicated in those locations where the CO has a Covad DSLAM in it serving out SDSL/2B1Q, but no other CLEC serving G.shdsl. Even if the ILEC were to provide a G.shdsl transport service with repeaters, it wouldn't help with SDSL/2B1Q. My idea involves building a gadget in the form factor of a standard mid-span repeater that would function as a converter from SDSL/2B1Q to G.shdsl: if the loop calls for one mid-span repeater, stick this gadget in as if it were that repeater; if the loop calls for 2 or more repeaters, use my gadget as the first "repeater" and then standard G.shdsl repeaters after it. But of course this idea is totally dependent on the ability of a third party to stick these devices in the middle of long rural loops, perhaps in the place of loading coils which are likely present on such loops.
Any ideas?
MS
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Message: 6 Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:18:08 -0800 From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> Subject: Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd) To: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Message-ID: <4B8BF6D0.9000900@bogus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
On 03/01/2010 09:04 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
On 3/1/2010 9:55 AM, Adam Waite wrote:
Hm, I was under the impression that ARPANET was a government run network...
Not since 1992......what you're looking for these days is NIPRnet and SIPRnet, and ESnet, etc, etc, etc.
ARPANET only lives on in reverse dns.....
And that is only the TLD label.
Is there still a DARPANET, ARPANET's successor?
On the us military side the successor to Arpanet was Milnet, NIPRnet, DDN etc.
In some respects the modern analog is DREN ESNET and so on.
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Message: 7 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 17:34:01 -0800 From: "Akyol, Bora A" <bora@pnl.gov> Subject: RE: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg) To: 'Michael Sokolov' <msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org> Message-ID: <BECAED262016464A9C59788DA6AC9690048525CC25@EMAIL05.pnl.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Michael
I think for the people in the situation you are describing, the best bet would be one of the wireless technologies. Someone on the thread mentioned LTE (which should be coming out in a couple years time), and to that we can add WiMAX and even the 3G/3.5G HSPDA type wireless. The prices will not be USD19.99 but for less than USD70/month it is quite possible to get reasonable high speed Internet access. Will it be as fast as GigE to the house? No. But it will certainly support most web apps. The only challenge is that some of these wireless technologies still have much higher latency when compared to the wired DSL/cable modem links.
Regards
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Sokolov [mailto:msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG] Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 4:05 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)
Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm very familiar with those folks of course, they've been an inspiration to me for a long time.
However, my needs are different. RRIC's model basically involves a specific community with a well-defined boundary: bring the bandwidth into the community via a bulk feed, then sublet inside the community.
But I don't have a specific community in mind - I'm trying to develop a more generic solution. (The case of my friend who is at 31 kft from a Covad-enabled CO is only an example and nothing more.) Again, consider a town with a Covad-enabled CO plus an outlying countryside. The people in the town proper already have Covad xDSL available to them, and if we could stick my SDSL/2B1Q repeater in the middle of some longer loops, it would enable the people in the countryside to get *exactly the same* Covad (or ISP-X-via-Covad) services as those in the town proper.
My repeater approach would also allow me to stay out of ISP or ISP-like business which I really don't want to get into - I would rather just make hardware and let someone else operate it. A repeater is totally unlike a router, it is not IP-aware, it just makes the loop seem shorter, allowing farther-outlying users to connect to *existing* ISPs with an already established business structure.
Anyway, I just saw a post on NANOG about an area deprived of "high-speed Internet" services and thought I would post my idea in the hope that someone would have some ideas that would actually be *helpful* to what I'm trying to do. If not - oh well, I'll just put the idea back on the dusty shelf in the back of my mind until I'm ready to try presenting it to the folks who own the CO-colocated DSLAMs it would have to work with - gotta finish a few other things before I open that can of worms in the earnest.
MS
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