DOs and DONTs for small ISP

Mon Jun 3 13:41:48 UTC 2019

Here is your checklist in descending order of importance:

   1. market opportunity
   2. finding the right partners (see below)
   3. financial
   4. sales and marketing
   5. organizational capacity and HR
   6. legal, regulatory
   7. capital acquisition
   8. security
   9. ...
   10. ...
   11. ...
   12. technical including equipment selection, routing policy, filtering,
   etc

It is a stone cold lock that the success of your new ISP will governed by
factors other than technical. Your most important task is to find
competent  financial and marketing people you can respect and trust. If the
market opportunity exists and you find them, you will succeed. If you
don't, all the technical excellence in the world won't help you. The road
is littered with technically excellent companies that failed.

On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 8:05 AM Mehmet Akcin <mehmet at akcin.net> wrote:

> hi there,
>
> I know there are folks from lots of small ISPs here and I wanted to
> check-in on asking few advice points as I am involved building an ISP from
> green-field.
>
> Usually, it's pretty straight forward to cover high-level important
> things, filters, routing policies, etc.but we all know the devil is in the
> details.
>
> I am putting together a public DOs and DONTs blog post and would love to
> hear from those who have built ISPs and have recommendations from Billing
> to Interconnection, Routing policy to Out of the band  & console setup,
> Software recommendations, etc. Bottom line is that I would like to publish
> a checklist with these recommendations which I hope will be useful for all.
>
> thanks in advance for your help and recommendation.
>
> Mehmet
>
>
>

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