[94112] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Video: The Next Wave of Massive Disruption to the US Peering Ecosystem (v1.2)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Glenn)
Tue Jan 9 23:47:06 2007
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 20:32:58 -0800
From: "Aaron Glenn" <aaron.glenn@gmail.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070110005131.GA45010@latency.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 1/9/07, Adam Rothschild <asr+nanog@latency.net> wrote:
>
> Here in the New York metro, you'd be hard pressed to find a vendor
> willing to turn away a 10G transit deal and the associated revenue.
> In the past few months, I've been approached by half a dozen or so
> major carriers eager to sell 10 gigabit ports, and with the capacity
> to deliver. If your customers are, indeed, reporting a widespread
> difficulty obtaining 10 gigabit ports from the larger players, I can
> think of plenty of smaller ISPs and switch-based resellers who'd be
> happy to carry their traffic.
>
Sure they'd be happy too, but can they actually deliver it? It's one
thing to sell a 4Gbps commit on a 10GbE port...but 30Gbps across four
or five ports is another thing entirely...
