mgcarley
Founder, Hayai Broadband
1. First time? Hrm. I doubt it, but before you get all the way up on your high horse, maybe we should get a collection of your posts with my responses, give out links to the literature, let people study them and leave that up to an audience vote. Failing that, would you be prepared to put that to the test against the collective knowledge of a few of my friends from countless ISPs across EVERY continent except Antarctica, not to mention equipment vendors? Do I really need an entire army of professionals who are actually employed to build & manage networks to tell the IIT graduate who is "right" and who is "wrong"? What about those on the business side of these things? Come on, do you really think I'm bullsh*g my way through the technical, legal and business aspects of the ISP business? Seems like a very dangerous position for me to be in, if that were the case. Officially, I make it my business to know everything there is to know about the ISP industry not just in India but in many countries that matter, and in some cases in the native languages of those countries. Unofficially, I make it my business to know more than anyone I talk to about what I'm doing. If you seriously think you know more than I do, then by all means, teach me, and if I'm really wrong about anything I've said here, either show your cards or stop being such an arrogant sod. I don't give a toss that you went to IIT or even what position you were in your class, but it seems very clear to me that my position on IIT grads for the last ~3 years is justified.2. Even if you think you have the best technology, that doesn't mean you'll be able to do what you're saying. The decision will be made by the bean-counters and the lawyers, not the technical people. My company has the advantage where I *am* part bean-counter, part technical person, part legal person. Peering etc is taken very seriously and ISPs will not just peer with anyone. Firstly, there's the legal stuff which you've not covered. Secondly, there's the terminology: if you're merely getting bandwidth from one of the other players, that's not peering, and you're not peered with them, as such, no access. Thirdly, you can't peer without a license, let alone start your own IX as you've been planning to. Fourthly, unless you can provide some significant advantage to the ISP, they're not going to connect to you. Period. As far as hosting a bunch of content, an ISP can implement content delivery servers for a one-time cost of less than 1 lakh per server, in their own premises, under their control. Why would they bother with you?If you still don't believe me, I can fire off a quick email to some of the decision makers at a few Indian ISPs who can give me some kind of official response as to how Fibernet would fit in to their networks, if at all and let them tell you what you can and can not do. 3. PLEASE USE THE QUOTE FEATURE PROPERLY.4. If you're going to answer questions 1 & 2, please do so politely and directly (request the cessation of insults and evasion of questions)... because I must say, you're wearing me rather thin.
