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Notes from running a network: how the pieces fit, what goes wrong, and what we'd do again.
- Layer 2, Layer 3 or L3VPN: choosing how to take nbnWho terminates the session, whose addresses the customer gets, and what you need to run. The three ways to take an nbn service, compared.
- Reseller nbn under your own brand, live in under an hourA hosted, white-label nbn storefront and customer portal with your name, your prices and your legal documents. You sell and support; we run everything else.
- Starting an ISP on nbn: what you actually needThe obligations, the decisions and the build you can skip. A practical checklist for IT businesses and new providers selling their first nbn services.
- Test before you escalate: reading nbn's Service Health resultWhat nbn's Service Health test tells you about a line, how to read it, and why your fault tickets should start with one.
- Your first ASN: making the first BGP session boringAPNIC membership, address space, ROAs, route objects and a written routing policy. What you need before your first BGP session, in the order you'll need it.