If you know people who have done it, why don't you ask them how they did it?
I'm going to be another person who is going to say you can't do it. Well, you can but for all intents and purposes, you can't. You really don't realize what is involved in this.
For you to not depend on a company or ISP somewhere to get onto the Internet backbone, you'll have to run your own fiber back haul all the way to a MAE site. MAE sites are specific datacenters which all the major ISPs have a presence in. They all connect up to each other at these MAE sites and fan out the network connectivity across their own networks which eventually get divided up to all their customers. So even if you are fortunate to be near a MAE site and can run your own fiber out to this site, you'll need a carrier class router. If you have a vision of what the South Park skit satirizing the Internet where they made fun of Internet problems by portraying the Internet being run by a large Linksys router, you're sadly mistaken. You need a router with the appropriate optical interface to plug into the carrier ring that is in these MAE sites. In addition, you need to have a router which can exchange route information with other ISP's routers and to do it with high performance as the route tables which need to be exchanged are enormous. The routing protocol you'll need to use is BGP. Now you'll have to get the knowledge and experience to be an expert level in BGP routing. There are teams of individuals who are dedicated to maintaining these ISP's BGP infrastructure. And these people are scary smart and while I can hold my own with a lot of things networking, these guys make me look stupid. But all this is provided the other ISPs trust you enough to even allow you to connect up to their BGP routing group. Because if you screw up, you can easily cause a major outage as your mess up will propagate like a virus across all these carrier routers. I'm not even sure how one would even get approval or be recognized as a carrier to even begin this communication with the various ISPs. This is also the reason why NO ISP will allow you to exchange route information with their routers with any routing protocol. Large corporations with millions to billions of dollars in resources are not allowed this capability to participate in the ISP's routing protocol. When a company like say oh Amazon wants to stand up another datacenter to connect up to their existing cloud infrastructure, they'll get the physical connection set up and the ISP will provide a dark fiber/dedicated leased line which is either a metro E or MPLS/VPLS hand off. In essence, Amazon will say I need this new circuit to reach this part of our existing network. The ISP will create a pathway which looks like a direct connection to Amazon but is essentially a dedicated tunnel that traverse across their routed network. This will allow Amazon to run their own routing infrastructure using either BGP or OSPF without even having to involve the ISP.
So if all I've said doesn't give you the impact of the technical challenges involved, maybe a financial discussion about how much money you'll need to spend to make this all happen. The fiber hauls discussed will cost you several hundred thousand if not millions to run. But let's just say you're close enough to a MAE site where it'll only cost thousands. Now you'll need to have a carrier class router. The only companies which make such products are Juniper, Cisco, and I think Alcatel/Lucent. I hope you have a million dollars or so to buy this router. Then you'll need to have colo space in this MAE site to rack this router and to be able to plug into the carrier ring. You'll have to cut a large check every month to who ever the company is which owns/runs this facility.
I don't want to come across as condescending with my reply but I can see from your post that you really don't understand what is involved. Believe me, if I can eliminate my dependence on these ISPs, I would. I have equipment in my home network which would put all small business and many medium sized businesses to shame. My colleagues at work have stated I should consider being a hosting provider in a half joking and half serious manner.
The only practical way you can effect changes in getting better Internet service is to lobby your politicians to eliminate these Telco monopolies and effect real competition. Or to push the government (who ever that might be....local/federal) to subsidize or mandate better Internet service. It sucks but it's the reality of living in the US.
I'm going to be another person who is going to say you can't do it. Well, you can but for all intents and purposes, you can't. You really don't realize what is involved in this.
For you to not depend on a company or ISP somewhere to get onto the Internet backbone, you'll have to run your own fiber back haul all the way to a MAE site. MAE sites are specific datacenters which all the major ISPs have a presence in. They all connect up to each other at these MAE sites and fan out the network connectivity across their own networks which eventually get divided up to all their customers. So even if you are fortunate to be near a MAE site and can run your own fiber out to this site, you'll need a carrier class router. If you have a vision of what the South Park skit satirizing the Internet where they made fun of Internet problems by portraying the Internet being run by a large Linksys router, you're sadly mistaken. You need a router with the appropriate optical interface to plug into the carrier ring that is in these MAE sites. In addition, you need to have a router which can exchange route information with other ISP's routers and to do it with high performance as the route tables which need to be exchanged are enormous. The routing protocol you'll need to use is BGP. Now you'll have to get the knowledge and experience to be an expert level in BGP routing. There are teams of individuals who are dedicated to maintaining these ISP's BGP infrastructure. And these people are scary smart and while I can hold my own with a lot of things networking, these guys make me look stupid. But all this is provided the other ISPs trust you enough to even allow you to connect up to their BGP routing group. Because if you screw up, you can easily cause a major outage as your mess up will propagate like a virus across all these carrier routers. I'm not even sure how one would even get approval or be recognized as a carrier to even begin this communication with the various ISPs. This is also the reason why NO ISP will allow you to exchange route information with their routers with any routing protocol. Large corporations with millions to billions of dollars in resources are not allowed this capability to participate in the ISP's routing protocol. When a company like say oh Amazon wants to stand up another datacenter to connect up to their existing cloud infrastructure, they'll get the physical connection set up and the ISP will provide a dark fiber/dedicated leased line which is either a metro E or MPLS/VPLS hand off. In essence, Amazon will say I need this new circuit to reach this part of our existing network. The ISP will create a pathway which looks like a direct connection to Amazon but is essentially a dedicated tunnel that traverse across their routed network. This will allow Amazon to run their own routing infrastructure using either BGP or OSPF without even having to involve the ISP.
So if all I've said doesn't give you the impact of the technical challenges involved, maybe a financial discussion about how much money you'll need to spend to make this all happen. The fiber hauls discussed will cost you several hundred thousand if not millions to run. But let's just say you're close enough to a MAE site where it'll only cost thousands. Now you'll need to have a carrier class router. The only companies which make such products are Juniper, Cisco, and I think Alcatel/Lucent. I hope you have a million dollars or so to buy this router. Then you'll need to have colo space in this MAE site to rack this router and to be able to plug into the carrier ring. You'll have to cut a large check every month to who ever the company is which owns/runs this facility.
I don't want to come across as condescending with my reply but I can see from your post that you really don't understand what is involved. Believe me, if I can eliminate my dependence on these ISPs, I would. I have equipment in my home network which would put all small business and many medium sized businesses to shame. My colleagues at work have stated I should consider being a hosting provider in a half joking and half serious manner.
The only practical way you can effect changes in getting better Internet service is to lobby your politicians to eliminate these Telco monopolies and effect real competition. Or to push the government (who ever that might be....local/federal) to subsidize or mandate better Internet service. It sucks but it's the reality of living in the US.
