[73193] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Mon Aug 16 15:28:56 2004
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:22:50 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408162033170.7382-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
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>Would you pay $10 more per megabit to buy this capacity from someone using
>12000 than from someone using let's say 7600 routers? That's something
>people will have to start to figure out the way we're headed here.
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You should take more care on picking your examples... Both the mentioned
subjects are fairly straightforward to configure in a way they flame out.
However on the subject at hand, to a knowledgeable buyer there is value
on operational specifications the network commits to (like latency,
jitter, packet loss, reconvergence time, etc.) To an occasional buyer
("end user") the value of a brand name is more significant.
Pete