Not sure where to start with this, but here goes.
My company is in the telecom business, but we are not a CLEC. Primarily hosting and colocation. We want to get into the metro ethernet market and we want to get our hands dirty. i.e. I dont want to pay everyone else to do things that are simple.
But there is a big barrier that I dont know how to cross.
Consider this case. Our POP is in a building in center city Philadelphia. Right down the street, literally one block is an office building which many potential customers. If I could run my own fiber cable from my POP to that building, I could offer Layer2 ethernet services and internet access to those customers. Bypassing verizon, local loops, etc.,. Now every street in Phila has sewer and manholes for running fiber, and since I would be doing short running, there would be no repeaters, just raw fiber cable.
But how does one do this? Does verizon own the rights to those manholes? Does it go through the city? How do people like Sunesys do it? I know my engineers and facilities guys could easily run that fiber themselves in that manhole.
I would really like to learn how this works. We are in the heart of the Phila downtown markets, with direct fiber to a handfull of buildings, we can service alot of customers. Once we get into the building, its easy.
thanks john