Becomming an ISP

[Silver-0-surfer]

Hi Guys,

I was wondering how one would become an ISP?

I don't mean a resseller for axxess or web africa or something but I mean like an ISP, so PPPoE connections get terminated on the PPPoE server and public IP's are allocated from there?

How do ISP's actually work? I mean do they get like a 100mpbs pipe into a dc somewhere? and then how does the traffic from the end users location get to the dc, do they pay for that?

Anyone actually know?

 

[agentrfr]

You buy rack space in a data centre, and purchase dedicated bandwidth from a backbone provider (IS, Mweb, Vodacom etc.). You then connect your rackspace/mainframe to an internet exchange, and register with telkom to be on the SA ADSL network. You have to manage all the fiber optics, hardware, software and legal issues yourself. You also need to pay "rent" to everyone involved (mostly to Telkom's IPC charges, but some also to your backbone provider and a hefty electricity bill to Eskom).

Then you can start being an ISP, but don't forget that you need to be on the lookout for network abusers / email spammers / illegal usage (hackers etc.) and this and that and the other....

Much easier to resell for someone with the equipment and registrations already. Sure they take out a cut of the profits, but then you can spend much more time on getting new customers rather than micro-managing them.

 

[koeksGHT]

You buy rack space in a data centre, and purchase dedicated bandwidth from a backbone provider (IS, Mweb, Vodacom etc.). You then connect your rackspace/mainframe to an internet exchange, and register with telkom to be on the SA ADSL network. You have to manage all the fiber optics, hardware, software and legal issues yourself. You also need to pay "rent" to everyone involved (mostly to Telkom's IPC charges, but some also to your backbone provider and a hefty electricity bill to Eskom).

Then you can start being an ISP, but don't forget that you need to be on the lookout for network abusers / email spammers / illegal usage (hackers etc.) and this and that and the other....

Much easier to resell for someone with the equipment and registrations already. Sure they take out a cut of the profits, but then you can spend much more time on getting new customers rather than micro-managing them.

This.

Unless you lay your own fibre optic cable the market is too saturated.

Now only if someone sponsored a fibre line to the UK or USA and set up a large wireless network around SA