[94690] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Best way to supply colo customer with specific provider
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Thu Feb 1 13:14:26 2007
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:13:29 -0500
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Rick Kunkel <kunkel@w-link.net>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0701301508010.22750-100000@samwise.w-link.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Rick Kunkel wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Being relatively new to the colocation business, we run into a fair number
> of issues that we've never run into before. Got a new one today, and
> although I can think of kludgey ways to accomplish what he wants, I'd
> rather get some other ideas first...
>
> We just had our first customer that's requesting bandwidth exclusively
> through a particular provider of ours (Cogent) at less expensive pricing.
> The money people here are up for it, but obviously, they want to make sure
> that he's confined to that Cogent connection.
Unless your customer is paying more for the privilege, your money people
are probably making a very big mistake here.
What happens when all your customers decide they want to only buy the
cheaper bandwidth from you?
