Great suggestion, Sylvia. If people agree, Steve could invite as he will
certainly be talking to them.

frt rgds

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On 29-06-18 04:40, Sylvia Cadena wrote:
 Are they aware of this list? It will be great to
 invite them to share and participate.

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 On 29 Jun 2018, at 4:06 am, Leandro Navarro <leandro@pangea.org
 <mailto:leandro@pangea.org>> wrote:

 Hi,
 On 28/6/18 05:33, Carlos Afonso wrote:
 I've seen emails mentioning it, no contact however. Great that you will
 try and get in touch with them. Reminds me also of that Welsh community
 which took Internet connectivity into their own hands
 (https://bit.ly/2lG75Hq).
 I've sent Steve the contacts in B4RN privately. Anyway they use the
 support group email that appears in the web as contact :-)
 One topic to learn about is related to the transit contracts -- maybe on
 a case by case basis (depending on location), or a bulk contract with a
 single transit provider etc. Offering Gbit/s (is this bidirectional?)
 Yes, they offer 1Gbps bidir, and a few 10 Gbps for companies/orgs.
 at the edge needs big transit "pipes".
 The pipes do not need to be that huge, aggregation helps.
 If I remember well, they have fibre to an IX in Manchester where they
 get connectivity with carriers, and last year they were in the process
 of leasing dark fibre to reach Edinburgh (probably in another IX) for
 redundancy.
 Also interesting is to talk about
 the UK's "gigabit broadband voucher scheme" and how this helps their
 initiative.
 It was the topic of a discussion in a recent INCA meeting that I didn't
 attend. As usual, vouchers/subsidies can have a supporting or distorting
 effect, depending of the rules/conditions + uncertainty if things take
 time to deliver or are intelligently designed to favor large national
 operators (a big elephant coming ...).
 B4RN seems to be doing very good in terms of community investment, so
 probably these vouchers can't add anything visible to it, but shake the
 environment ...

 Warm regards, Leandro.

 fraternal regards

 --c.a.

 On 27/06/2018 16:47, Steve Song wrote:
 Hi all,

 Does anyone have a good contact at B4RN?  I will be in the UK for a
 couple
 of days in July would like to visit them.

 Thanks... Steve Song

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