[183428] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NetFlow - path from Routers to Collector
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Tue Sep 1 20:30:40 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: jared@puck.nether.net (Jared Mauch)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 20:30:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: freedman@freedman.net (Avi Freedman)
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
(Jared wrote):
<snip>
> Most people I've seen have little data or insight into their
> networks, or don't have the level that they would desire as
> tools are expensive or impossible to justify due to capital costs.
> Tossing in a recurring opex cost of DC XC fee + transport + XC fee +
> redundant aggregation often doesn't have the ROI you infer here.
> I've put together some models in this area. It seems to me the
> DC/real estate companies involved could make a lot (more) money by
> offering an OOB service that is 10Mb/s flat-rate for the same as an XC
> fee and compete with their customers.
Equinix does have a very aggressively priced 10Mb/s flat-rate OOB (single
IP only but that's not that hard to work around) for essentially XC
pricing. It's been stable but not something you'd rely on for 100%
packet delivery to some other point on the Internet (so more for
reaching a per-pop OOB than for making a coherent OOB network with
a bunch of monitoring running 24x7).
Still, it's a good value for what it is.
<snip>
> - Jared
Avi Freedman
CEO, Kentik
avi at kentik dot com
