North American Network Operators Group
Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical

Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit

  • From: Deepak Jain
  • Date: Wed Aug 18 12:54:03 2004 


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