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> >> where's the "lot of cost"? > > > Stephen J. Wilcox > > This is private vs public.. > > Even if it's private, and assuming that you're clever enough not to peer > for a modem's worth of traffic, the cost is a no-brainer, IMHO. > Someone checks my math please: > At $20 per megabit for transit (which I find very low, but let's go for > it anyway) a GE link for peering with an average use of 10% means $24000 > per year saved; pays for the xconnect. If you have a gig of traffic to peer out to a single AS, you need quite a bit of infrastructure to support the peering and that infrastructure does not come cheap. Alex
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