On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:39:34 GMT, Adam Armstrong said:
Sure, if you want to hand over your entire profit margin to a 3rd party. Do you really want to give away the keys to your business, and rely entirely upon a third party organisation? Better to acquire the skills which are vital to your organisation yourself.
Umm.. You did that *anyhow* the instant you paid somebody else to run the cables to your location rather than dig your own ditches. Similarly for electricity and everything else you don't create yourself.
NOTE: I am not an employee, or paid affiliate of packet exchange... I have used them for services and am promoting them due to my own good experiences with their services.
I used to work for them. Then as now, I honestly can see little purpose in their productset.
There's little purpose if you're an ISP that's supposed to be good at BGP yourself. If however, your business is running a /24 worth of webservers that sells your company's product, and Best Practices says you should be multi-homed but the in-house skill set runs more to Apache than BGP, a well-designed BGP appliance can be a ghodsend. (I admit I missed the OP's statement of what business line they were in).