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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