[RTC List] Redundant Internet (not rendundant fiber)

[William Van Hefner]

George,

Part of the reason that the original fiber was deployed in the first
place was that microwave simply does not provide enough capacity to
handle the entire load of all voice and data traffic for the county.
That's one reason why so many people trying to place voice calls during
this last outage only received fast busy signals, or "all circuits busy"
intercept recordings. AT&T DOES have a microwave backup. It simply
doesn't have enough capacity.

We went through a period in time where additional bandwidth was nearly
impossible to obtain, due to the fact that AT&T's microwave capacity
was maxxed out. Handling -some- of the traffic in Rio Dell is one
thing. Handling all of the voice and data capacity for the entire
county is quite another, unfortunately. Considering how large the
bandwidth needs of the average consumer have skyrocketed over just the
past 2-3 years, I think it's safe to say that microwave is no long-term
solution.


-- 

William Van Hefner
President

Vantek Communications, Inc.
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On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:51:47 -0700
"G W Bell" <gwbell2003 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe this has been discussed somewhere.  If so, I missed it.  What
> Humboldt County needs is what Rio Dell has:  redundant internet
> (consisting of fiber optic cable backed up by a microwave link).
> Instead of burying another fiber optic cable (or stringing it on
> poles) the 120+ miles to Redding, has the "Rio Dell solution" been
> considered to bring redundant internet to the entire
> Fortuna-to-McKinleyville area of Humboldt?
> 
> I have no idea if 101Netlink could or would do it, but that'd be a
> good place to start.  I know the telephone company could do it, but
> would it be worth their while for the tiny market in Humboldt?
> 
> Additional thought(s):  Do reps from the phone company or Suddenlink
> monitor this list?  Are they active participants in RTC meetings,
> plans & seminars? If not, they should be....
> 
> Thanks for your time,   George
> 
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