[73282] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Wed Aug 18 12:52:20 2004
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:51:39 -0400
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Fredy Kuenzler <kuenzler@init7.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <41238304.6010405@init7.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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> With these US street prices in mind, how can anyone justify paying
> prices of some commercial exchanges (the last offer I got from PAIX Palo
> Alto was USD 5500 per month for a FE port about a year ago, and Equinix
> Ashburn was not much cheaper). Please note: I'm not talking of the
> technical advantages of peering.
Or, perhaps the better question is. How can one justify the cost of
_public_ peering when fiber cross-connects are $200-$300/month each.
That is at least 20-40 fiber direct connects [twice that if you & your
peers split the cost of cross-connects]. If you only need 1Gb/s of
cross-connect capacity you can take a 3x50 switch [or use it as a
router] and terminate all of the peering sessions on it or via
VLAN-trunking directly on your real router [C/J/what have you]. Your
hardware cost is marginally increased and your capacity is MANY times
larger.
I don't think there are too many exchanges anymore that have 80+ active
peers. If you do participate in such an exchange, have 80 peers on it,
and don't exceed a single port's speed, shame on you. :)
DJ
