We are going to plaid mode (multi-home BGP)

We started the long process for getting a second “backhoe proof, organizationally redundant”, IP Transit circuit to our head node here at 750 Ericksen.

If you are not a network geek: we will have 2 roads out of county. Each road is built/maintained by separate agencies. The roads are not physically close to each other; even if one falls apart the other will still be open. No other residential ISP on the KPUD network has or will have this capability.

This is a big twinky for us to swallow; the base is a $120,000 commitment. When we look out two years from now and have 2,000+ residential customers, we simply cannot have back to back multi hour 100% outages like what happened in early December ‘21. KPUD is working on improving their system; it’s already very good and it will be better. KPUD has indicated they are not going to peer with anyone other than NoaNet.

We have no option but to do this on our own. We wanted to hire an ‘O1 journeyman so we could do more value add as we expand. However we are investing almost all our net revenue into getting this built.

We will increase our fees at the end of 2022. There will be a small increase to offset the monthly redundancy fee and I expect KPUD will push a wholesale fee increase as well. Hopefully, at that time, you will continue with us as we strive to provide you the best possible internet service in the county.