Express routes into the County for Net253

We serve a lot of the customers on KPUD’s residential network. Almost half (48.7% to be exact). We have been working with KPUD to increase the backbone capacity through the center of the county. Tonight we got our first results in. We hit 13.4gbps at 9:30PM tonight. No other ISP has an actual need or can reach above 10gbps into Kitsap’s backbone. Net253 has a 40gbps link into the backbone to match up with our 100gbps link out of the county. Net253/KPUD now has 40gbps links from Net253 to north Bainbridge. There is a 40gbps link to Poulsbo. A 100gbps! link to Bremerton. These are point to point links; like bullet train routes next to old “high speed” Amtrak train lines. In the spirit of open access, Net253 paid for the equipment but all the ISPs on the network get to use the links from Bremerton to Poulsbo and Poulsbo to Bainbridge. Its just good for the whole county. We live here and want the KPUD open access model to be something other counties/states copy throughout the country. I guess I need to keep driving that 2005 mini van; this upgrade was on the order of a new SUV.

KPUD is working on a 100gbps backbone which is going to massively upgrade the entire county. This is very expensive (KPUD only uses the “good stuff”, like Cisco for the backbone switches) and will be a few years in the making. We needed more speed now and worked with KPUD to come up with a creative solution to leverage the existing infrastructure in the county. They have lots of fiber on the poles, we just needed better electronics/lasers.

Please understand, if your network feels slow, something is wrong at your home, it cannot be us. And now with this new backbone upgrade, it cannot be KPUD either.

We are all out of surprises and upgrades now, nothing to give you for Christmas. Sorry.