[95191] in North American Network Operators' Group
single homed public-peer bandwidth ... pricing survey ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Arnaute)
Tue Mar 6 16:52:35 2007
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:51:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Jason Arnaute <non_secure@yahoo.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hello,
I am currently hosted in a small, independent
datacenter that has 4 or 5 public peers (L3, Sprint,
UUnet, AT&T and ... ?)
They are a very nice facility, very technical and
professional, and have real people on-site 24 hours
per day ... remote hands, etc. All very high end and
well managed.
But, I am charged between $150 and $180 per megabit/s
for non-redundant, single-homed bandwidth (not sure
which provider they put it on) and even if I commit to
20 or 30 megabits/s it still only drops down to $100 -
$120 per megabit/s.
So naturally, I am very interested when I see HE.NET
offering bandwidth for $20/mb/s, and it looks like
Level3 is selling for $30/mb/s...
Are there two classes of bandwidth in the world ? Is
it reasonable and expected that single homed public
peered bandwidth is, circa Jan 2007, going for above
$100/mb/s while private peered bandwidth like L3 and
HE.NET is $30 and below ?
Or am I just getting ripped off ?
Where can I go to read and learn more about the
advantages and disadvantages (from a networking
standpoint) of switching from an independent, public
peered datacenter to, say, L3 or HE.NET ?
Thanks.
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