[13130] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NAP Architecture
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Wed Oct 29 14:38:03 1997
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 14:15:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@jain.com>
To: Dave Rand <dlr@bungi.com>
cc: the Riz <riz@beast.boogers.sf.ca.us>, blkirk@float.eli.net,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0xQbrN-0000FuC@daver.bungi.com>
> I'm confused. PAIX charges a similar amount ($1000/mo) for dry copper
> between two consenting parties at PAIX. Again, for $27 worth of wire,
> and $300 worth of labour? This is reasonable?
>
> IMHO, $50/month is reasonable for copper cross-connects, with a $300
> installation charge. Even $100 per month. But $1000.
I think if the price were negligible (say <$250/month per) then there
would be a considerably strong economic incentive to not connect to the
switch fabric at all. Smaller peers could connect to a switch/hub that
connected by (say FE) into the same port, larger peers/customers can
connect through dedicated ports resulting in a lower overall charge per
megabit thruput.
(20 FE connections * 30Mbit/s sustained each = 600Mbit/s for $5000/month)
-Deepak.
