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Posted by T on July 9, 2007, 8:37 pm
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john@essenz.com says...
> Not sure where to start with this, but here goes.
>
> My company is in the telecom business, but we are not a CLEC.
> Primarily hosting and colocation. We want to get into the metro
> ethernet market and we want to get our hands dirty. i.e. I dont want
> to pay everyone else to do things that are simple.
>
> But there is a big barrier that I dont know how to cross.
>
> Consider this case. Our POP is in a building in center city
> Philadelphia. Right down the street, literally one block is an office
> building which many potential customers. If I could run my own fiber
> cable from my POP to that building, I could offer Layer2 ethernet
> services and internet access to those customers. Bypassing verizon,
> local loops, etc.,. Now every street in Phila has sewer and manholes
> for running fiber, and since I would be doing short running, there
> would be no repeaters, just raw fiber cable.
>
> But how does one do this? Does verizon own the rights to those
> manholes? Does it go through the city? How do people like Sunesys do
> it? I know my engineers and facilities guys could easily run that
> fiber themselves in that manhole.
>
> I would really like to learn how this works. We are in the heart of
> the Phila downtown markets, with direct fiber to a handfull of
> buildings, we can service alot of customers. Once we get into the
> building, its easy.
Talk to the power company. They'll let you run fiber in their ducts if
you have an easement with them. They'll probably want a cut but you
don't get something for nothing.
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