"Back to the Future : Everything Old is New Again" Some of you know that I ran an Internet Service Provider ("ISP") from 1994 at the birth of the dot com days up until 2008 when I sold the whole thing off. In fact I still own the domain name backpack.com 😎 That ISP started with just THREE (3) analog phone lines -- two 14.4K modems and one 28.8K modem uplink to my upstream ISP that was fed by Minnesota Regional Network or "MRNET" at the time. By the time I sold it off we had an OC-12 fibre facility into a colo downtown Minneapolis that we were floating in two different DS-3's and an ATM circuit for our DSL clients, plus a ton of T1's and PRI's and had just completed getting CLEC status to launch a VOIP service. So it's a little ironic that I'm going back to the future by buying up our own /24 block of IP addresses so that we can turn up BGP routing across our backbone providers. It's not even about cost -- what we've built at Silicon Prairie has lower COGS than our contemporaries in the space -- it's about control and reducing systemic risk. And that is as they say "Priceless" #onprem #oldschool #parsimonious #UnfairCompetitiveAdvantages #thelittleduke
Hey Jonathan Nowaczek, JD, CISSP, CIPP/US !!? "We're getting the band back togethaaaaaa"
Adam Reiser
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We had 42 NAPs across the U.S. in all the football cities and collocation in AT&T facilities we brought in Sprnt, ATT, UUnet, cable and wireless and the local Frame Relay for T1s and had our own ASN numbers BGP and on 12k Cisco Systems Routers OC12 OC48 multiple feeds and we Routed AOL, IBM dial in access for their support people, and a bazillion small ISP's
CEO at Silicon Prairie Capital Partners
1w"QUAINT" V3 of our "cloud" was running on refurbished DELL servers parked in a colo center, until the shitty H5 hedge fund derps that took control of it tried jacking our rates up by over 30% even though we had a contract stipulating a 3% per annum rate increase. Still our COGS were among the lowest of our peers and this stack was still only operating at about 10% of capacity