(Enterprise AS for context)

This hasn’t been my experience in the US, however we mostly deal in tier 2 markets (I.e. Detroit, Miami, Dallas, etc…) and we have plenty of 40G private interconnects. I don’t doubt 40G is going away, I’ve just never had trouble using it around here.

The only time we’ve been asked to run something other than 40G was because we like to run our ports very hot (latency insensitive traffic) and some networks do not tolerate consistently high utilization of their ports.

Different story in Japan, it’s 100G+ or nothing. You just have to find someone willing to peer with you in the first place…

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On Aug 27, 2023, at 23:43, Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:



On 8/28/23 03:05, Mike Hammett wrote:

Well, or they simply found a potential deal on hardware that came with 40 gig ports. 40 gigs is still a lot of bits to a lot of people.

For internal use, sure.

But when connecting to another AS, the chances of them supporting 40Gbps in one or more places is inconsistent to slim.

Exchange points may be an exception.

Mark.