Power metering and monitoring

One of our goals at NireNet is to be as transparent to you, the customer, as is possible. One of the things we wanted to do was offer co-location and dedicated servers where the actual consumption was metered and you were billed for the actual power consumption (plus the required percentage consumed in cooling) of your equipment rather than the stock price per "U" most providers offer.

To do this we needed a sub-metering solution either with pulse meters or current transformers on your server power feeds.

Today, we had a meeting with Procuro who offer these tools. We particularly like their monitoring software > Here which allows us to integrate the power consumption figures into the portal for your visibility and billing.
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Ofcom Communications Provider ID (CUPID)

Today we received notification that Nirenet Ltd has been allocated a Communications Provider ID (3 digit code) by Ofcom which allows us to proceed to deliver communications services to the public.

Our ID is 262, details of which can be seen in Excel format on the Ofcom site

: Updated - Our ID now appears in Ofcoms' downloadable document.
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Duns Number Application

Now things are really in progress, and our Duns Application is in too. We await a response.
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Cupid Application for Nirenet.net

We have just received confirmation from Ofcom that our Cupid application for Nirenet has been accepted and is in processing.

Its a no issue "problem" as we already hold Cupid ID's for other companies so this one should go through easily. Only "up to" three weeks to wait.....
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Nirenet Company Registration

Time to crack open a small bottle of bubbly!

Company registration has gone through for the up and coming Nirenet.

We are now on Companies House Here for anyone who cares!

Meetings with the accountants and bank are looming!
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Versatek DSLAMs and CPEs

Well sorry for the late post folks but we have been on a round the world tour in two days to see Versatek .

They have some very interesting offerings in terms of CPE and DSLAMs

They are very firmly on the possibilities list at this time and we have ordered some trial units to be shipped as the airline weren't very pleased about the idea of 12U chassis as hand baggage!
I will let you know more how we get on once we have some and have performed some testing and its time for sleep!
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Copper Overlay for Hampton Hargate, Peterborough

Re this article, TPON , we were presuming the poor folks of Hampton Hargate were getting remote DSlams. However, I read today they are getting copper overlay for the area.

When we were surveying the area, we discovered those who had copper overlay at the Hargate end of the estate were only achieving around 1Mb/s on 5km of cable from Peterborough Central exchange, and those in the Vale are getting around 2-3Mb/s from their adjacent exchange.

Now it turns out BT are not rolling out remote DSlams, but are continuing with the copper overlay which is absolute madness. Maybe there is business here after all....
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The list of thing to do this week:

1. New Company formation!

2. Another meeting with BT re commercials

3. Get estate agent's paperwork through our legals

4. Chase suppliers again due to their lack of response.

I am sure that some more will come to mind in due course!

Welcome to Monday...
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Entry Level ADSL Platform??

Last night the partners involved were offered some ex equipment Lucent AnyMedia Access System chassis with Adsl 1 cards (up to 8Mb/s + 1Mb/s) cards at an excellent price.

We are now considering taking up this offer as they offer upgrade potential for VOIP/PSTN services as they are a full multi-service platforms.

While they are not supplied with the VOIP/TDM cards, we are looking at pricing to allow us to bring a CPW/TalkTalk price busting package to you!
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Provision of Voice Services??

Voice Services are something we have been considering offering as part of our solution. One product we have been looking at, but haven't made a decision on, is below.


From: YakaSoftware [http://www.yakasoftware.com]


The solution starts at XXXXX,- EUR and that involves installation, configuration and minor customizations based on your requirements. This applies for all web, as well as for asterisk (VOIP Server) related installations.

The facility would be provided either via Softphone, SIP router/gateway or a channel bank to provide traditional POTS in your premises.

One option of Channel Banks for review are http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Channel+Bank

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BT and Distant Co-Mingling

Ok. BT have taken the questions whether we receive and return the customers' voice service to and from our co-lo building. As suspected BT don't actually have anyone in the UK doing distant co-mingling with Shared Metallic Path, i.e. where the LLU Op doesn't provide the voice too.

There is another LLU OP doing distant co-mingling with voice provision but they also provide the POTS service and BT need to investigate with planning and technical sources how we move this forward.

Again, another hold up from BT!
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Doh, chasing BT re SMP provision and distant co-minging

Hmm, well we are still awaiting a call back from the powers that b(e)t to get answers to questions raised about whether or not we have to accept and hand back the voice (pots) service within a distant co-mingling environment.

The location we have chosen for the first site allows no direct access to the exchange building as it is a Category-X exchange and requires major building works for access. So we've taken the building next door and are running tie-cables back to BT!

Jackpot, its just a shame they don't seem to have completed the process elsewhere yet and the docs are all 3 years out of date and contradictory. We fear we may have decisions being made that are defining policy at the moment!

More at http://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/products/llu/llu.do
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BT and the Estate Agents

Phew. Back from holiday.

Good news, BT are busily helping us along when we thought we would have the most problems with these boys and the politics involved in an organisation of such a size.

Today we've also submitted plans for the required air conditioning to the Estate Agents for approval and all things are moving forward (slowly!)

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