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Did you stare blankely at the title for a minute? I would have to.

The question is simple. What is involved (I mean really involved) in being ones own ISP?

Say you get a line provisioned, be it T-1, OC-3, etc. It's ruuning to your house, warehouse, etc. You have the bare line sticking out of a hole in your plaster wall. Now what?

In house:
-What kind of interface do these high bandwidth lines use? (Ethernet?)
- what hardware would you need to split this line to your subscribers?
- what hardware do you use for keeping track of usage and load balancing?
- How do you obtain in IP pool for your users?

For your customers, etc:
- how does one take the bandwidth they have provisioned and feed it to users via dsl?
-What kind of arangements with the telco's are needed and what equiptment?

Is there a site that has this kind of information? It seems like these are well hidden secrets of the internet!

I want to know what you all know about this...

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