Re: Sprint peering policy

[Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 12:06:18PM -0700, Clayton Fiske wrote:
> Nor does it cost $0 on top of that $200 to buy transit. This may hold
> true to some degree for a small-ish network, but probably not for a
> larger one. Even factoring in depreciation, line cards, etc, I would
> imagine you won't find OC3 transit in 4 cities from any ISP to be as
> cheap as OC3 peering in 4 cities, for example. Add to that the chance
> that, as a larger network, you'll probably be getting your pipes at
> volume discounts.

That all depends on what you buy and where you peer. I can easily come up
with 4x OC3 transit prices well below the cost of MAE, AADS, or PAIX (well
in FastE at any rate) port pricing, without even counting the cost of the
circuit to those facilities. Thats assuming you'd get perfect utilization
out of those peering ports (ie that you'd get enough peers and have enough
traffic to potentially use it completely or near completely).

Just because you aren't paying for the bandwidth doesn't mean you can't
end up spending more than you would for transit if you don't know what you
are doing.

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