On 10/13/20 7:29 PM, Aaron Gould wrote:
Do y’all like HE for Internet uplink? I’m thinking about using them for 100gig in Texas. It would be for my eyeballs ISP. We currently have Spectrum, Telia and Cogent.
They're a good bulk/budget option in a blend. A decent number of content hosts are keen to source traffic into them. I would be loathe to be single-homed to them, but even then they're not the worst option in that department. If you've already got Telia, Spectrum, and Cogent, 6939 is probably a great addition to your blend. They'll probably want a 5yr contract out of you to get their best (and headline per-Mbps) rate. Evaluate carefully what position that puts you in based on the continually dropping cost of wholesale transit and bulk interconnect opportunities. You may prefer a shorter contract term at slightly higher rates. As others said, if you don't need full routes from them, they have a VERY open peering policy, and that 100G port might be better suited to a local IX where you can pick them up along with a bunch of other content networks. -- Brandon Martin