[72245] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Sat Jul 3 12:11:24 2004
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 18:10:50 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <16614.54527.235682.925898@ran.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Randy Bush wrote:
> it costs to build, maintain, and manage an exchange which carries
> significant traffic. costs get recovered. life is simple.
What is significant traffic? What is the cost? If you have an exchange
with let's say 20 people connected to it and they all connect using GE.
Running this exchange in an existing facility with existing people, you
can easily run it for under $10k per year per connected operator or less
as you already have engineers that are on site frequently, you already
have a billing department etc.
It's when the exchange is being run by a separate entity that needs a
marketing department, a well-paid staff of managers, technicians etc that
price really goes up. All this to basically manage a simple ethernet
switch that needs some patching a couple of times a month at maximum.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
