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On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Gary Kliethermes wrote:
> Anyone on this list located in Northern NJ? Specifically, the Hackensack area? If not, can you recommend anyone?
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> I have a client there that owns a lot of apartment buildings in the area (some are in NYC) and wants to provide high speed access to the tenents. By "a lot" I mean that they are mainly high rise buildings with over 200 apartments in each building. These are fairly new buildings that supposedly have network cabling run to each unit, however, I haven't been able to verify that yet.
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> We have been in contact with several ISP's to check on DSL service. Cable modems are also being looked at. These are easy to do, but it quickly gets expensive because of the need to purchase routers or cable modems for each unit. Monthly costs also start to mount when you start looking at 100 to 150 subscribers per building. In other words, they don't scale well.
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> I'd like to look at the possibility of bringing in a T1 to each building and connecting the tenents via ethernet. There would need to be a DHCP server configured with all the settings so that it's plug and play for the tenents. There would also need to be a firewall and probably a small ethernet switch on each floor. Basically, we would need someone local to the area that could physically setup and install the network.
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> Although price is an issue, it isn't the main factor. We need a workable solution that's scalable, reasonably secure, and reliable. I need to stress that this is a very important client to me, with lots of high profile tenents, so I want to be sure that whatever we propose works well.
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> Please let me know if this looks to be a workable solution. If you can do it, if you know someone in the area that can, or if you have other options that we haven't thought of, please let me know.
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> Thanks,
> Gary Kliethermes
> gary@thewebdepot.com
> 573-881-4279
> http://www.thewebdepot.com
>
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