[olug] starting broadband ISP, any suggestions?

[Justin Reiners]

Hey eveyone, weird question, I have done my googling, to no avail. I was
wondering if anyone here works for an ISP, or has the understanding of
first time setup. My boss have come to me with a task, He is looking for
starting an ISP in his home town, as there are no, 100MB+ isps in the area,
connection type is fixed wireless, or microwave. He owns a tower in IA, I
cannot say where exactly it is located because he hosts things for the CIA,
FBI and such. He also has fiber to the building, unused at the moment, and
he also has all the capital he needs to get it going. I have some
questions, He wants to start with 1Gb of bandwidth, and knows plenty of
businesses in the area that are looking to go faster.

1. When the fiber is installed, will we be left with a 1Gigabit Ethernet
port I route off of?
2. I assume we will need to buy public IPs. any idea on the costs?
3. What types of switches and routers do you recommend, (hoping it is just
ethernet) (number of users will be around 20 at first, then the sky is the
limit.)
4. can the routing be done using a linux box?
5. Can multiple users use the same directional antenna?
6. How can we keep networks seperate?


Any help will be appreciated. I am hoping someone in the group works with
this type of thing. google has not been much help, I find a lot of OLD ISP
pages, talking of dialup modems of such. lol.

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