On 12/10/14 7:45 PM, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014, Yucong Sun wrote:
It is not the same thing though. In my case, they just say we want you to buy our IP, if you don't and want use you own Arin allocated IP blocks through bgp, then we got to charge you anyway!
Are they charging per /24 (assuming IPv4 here...), or per prefix?
If they are charging per /24, that seems like a great way to encourage customers to find another provider.
If they are charging per prefix, that seems like an interesting way to encourage customers to make sure they aggregate their BGP advertisements as much as possible.
ISPs in my experience have a fee schedule supported by a model which allows them to recover their expenses plus a nominal profit. If the model doesn't work, in the long run that is a problem that solves itself. At the right scale I have productive leverage against the profit side of that number and also what line items the expenses are lodged against. below that I'm a retail customer and I pick from the best options available to me.
jms