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Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit
From: Deepak Jain <deepak () ai net>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:51:39 -0400
With these US street prices in mind, how can anyone justify paying prices of some commercial exchanges (the last offer I got from PAIX Palo Alto was USD 5500 per month for a FE port about a year ago, and Equinix Ashburn was not much cheaper). Please note: I'm not talking of the technical advantages of peering.
Or, perhaps the better question is. How can one justify the cost of _public_ peering when fiber cross-connects are $200-$300/month each. That is at least 20-40 fiber direct connects [twice that if you & your peers split the cost of cross-connects]. If you only need 1Gb/s of cross-connect capacity you can take a 3x50 switch [or use it as a router] and terminate all of the peering sessions on it or via VLAN-trunking directly on your real router [C/J/what have you]. Your hardware cost is marginally increased and your capacity is MANY times larger.
I don't think there are too many exchanges anymore that have 80+ active peers. If you do participate in such an exchange, have 80 peers on it, and don't exceed a single port's speed, shame on you. :)
DJ
Current thread:
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit, (continued)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Deepak Jain (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Andre Oppermann (Aug 18)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Deepak Jain (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Petri Helenius (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Stephen J. Wilcox (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Suresh Ramasubramanian (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Michael . Dillon (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Deepak Jain (Aug 18)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Niels Bakker (Aug 18)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Patrick W Gilmore (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Patrick W Gilmore (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Joe Abley (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Randy Bush (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Eric Kuhnke (Aug 17)