[173739] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Bicknell)
Sat Aug 2 09:48:07 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
In-Reply-To: <53DCE353.8060909@ramapo.edu>
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 08:47:46 -0500
To: Vlade Ristevski <vristevs@ramapo.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Aug 2, 2014, at 8:10 AM, Vlade Ristevski <vristevs@ramapo.edu> wrote:
> I might be misunderstanding this, but are you guys saying 10G Internet =
access to a tier 1 costs around $6,000 a month? I ask because I run a =
network for a small college and the best price I could get on 1Gbps =
Internet is about $5,500 a month with the fiber loop included which =
itself costs $2000-$2500. Or are you guys discussing a different type =
connection?
>=20
> The quotes I got were from Cogent, Lightpath, Level 3, Verizon =
($8,000) and I think even ATT a few years back. I'm out in the NJ =
suburbs about 30 miles from Manhattan. If there is a cheaper way to get =
good bandwidth, I'm all ears. We're in Mahwah , NJ.
I think a 10GE for $6,000 in bandwidth charges is possible, if you meet =
the provider. What that means is if you are in an Equinix, Coresite, =
Telehouse, or other sort of carrier neutral colocation point, and you're =
willing to make the cross connect appear at the providers cage, you can =
get bandwidth for that price. Basically it's the price when the =
provider has to do zero other work, already has a large pop, and is =
selling large wholesale chunks.
Add in a local loop, cost for a smaller pop they have to maintain, =
engineering and so on and your price for 1GE 30 miles away from such =
places seems perfectly reasonable to me.
It's kind of the difference between driving your pickup to the quarry to =
get a truck load of sand, vrs buying prepackaged sand at the local home =
improvement store.
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Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440
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