[olug] starting broadband ISP, any suggestions?

[Sam Flint]

MikroTik W00t!

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Sam Tetherow <tetherow at shwisp.net> wrote:
> Most of the Vyatta engineers were hired by Ubiquiti for their EdgeOS
> project.
>
> Honestly if you are going to be an ISP for mostly commercial customers, I
> would strongly suggest going with something a bit more standard in the
> router department, such as Cisco, Juniper, Imagestream or Mikrotik.
>
> It will make your life easier when it comes to staffing as well as dealing
> with your upstream.  Most upstreams assume you have Cisco and if you don't
> you are definately going to want to be an expert in whatever router you are
> using.
>
>
> On 08/22/2012 03:29 PM, Kevin wrote:
>>
>> It's a distro, evidently meant for routing. Someone on ServerFault[1]
>> suggested it as an alternative to my solution.
>>
>> [1] http://serverfault.com/a/133414/9138
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Justin Reiners<justin at hotlinesinc.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> is  Vyatta a routing distro or hardware?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:08 AM, James
>>> Ringler<jringler at plainseg.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> For the routing..  take a look at Vyatta..  it will do everything you
>>>> want
>>>> and more..
>>>>
>>>> JR-
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