Re: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly?

[jim deleskie <deleskie () gmail com>]

IMHO the only reason(s) would be to discourage people from asking for
it, or as a $$ grab.

-jim

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Anurag Bhatia <me () anuragbhatia com> wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
>
> I have been aggressively looking for deals in servers in Europe for
> anycasting. One thing which surprises me is the "setup costs" for BGP. Few
> providers quoted additional $50-100 which looks OK but a few of them quoted
> as high as $150 *extra every month* just for having BGP (no full routing
> table, but just default route pointing). Is there's any technical logic
> behind such heavy costs? I mean at the end of day we are all talking at
> layer 3 and thus it does not involves any hard connection/physical work.
> What other members pay for BGP setup costs?
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>
> Thanks!
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