[In the message entitled "Re: NAP Architecture" on Oct 29, 9:06, the Riz writes:]
This *is* becoming more popular; in the US, the main problem is that many (most?) of the exchange points are operated by telcos, who are tariffed. This means that any connection between separate entities is a "circuit" that they must charge a certain minimum amount for. As more telcos manage to move their exchange point operations into the non-regulated portion of their respected businesses, this may change, and exchanges are currently being built by non-telco entities, which are allowed to have more reasonable charges to connect cages in the same facility together. (Disclaimer: in my other life, I work for one such facility... the PAIX in Palo Alto)
I'm confused. PAIX charges a similar amount ($1000/mo) for dry copper between two consenting parties at PAIX. Again, for $27 worth of wire, and $300 worth of labour? This is reasonable? IMHO, $50/month is reasonable for copper cross-connects, with a $300 installation charge. Even $100 per month. But $1000? -- Dave Rand dlr@bungi.com http://www.bungi.com
Dave Rand wrote:
[In the message entitled "Re: NAP Architecture" on Oct 29, 9:06, the Riz writes:]
This *is* becoming more popular; in the US, the main problem is that
(most?) of the exchange points are operated by telcos, who are tariffed. This means that any connection between separate entities is a "circuit" that they must charge a certain minimum amount for. As more telcos manage to move their exchange point operations into the non-regulated
many portion of
their respected businesses, this may change, and exchanges are currently being built by non-telco entities, which are allowed to have more reasonable charges to connect cages in the same facility together. (Disclaimer: in my other life, I work for one such facility... the PAIX in Palo Alto)
I'm confused. PAIX charges a similar amount ($1000/mo) for dry copper
between two consenting parties at PAIX. Again, for $27 worth of wire,
and $300 worth of labour? This is reasonable?
IMHO, $50/month is reasonable for copper cross-connects, with a $300 installation charge. Even $100 per month. But $1000?
You could always go wireless and not tell anybody ;-) In fact, if the traffic were not too bad a few interconnects could sit on a small wireless LAN nicely.... Is that $1000 a MONTH or just a one-off installation charge?
-- Dave Rand dlr@bungi.com http://www.bungi.com
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I'm confused. PAIX charges a similar amount ($1000/mo) for dry copper between two consenting parties at PAIX. Again, for $27 worth of wire, and $300 worth of labour? This is reasonable?
IMHO, $50/month is reasonable for copper cross-connects, with a $300 installation charge. Even $100 per month. But $1000.
I think if the price were negligible (say <$250/month per) then there would be a considerably strong economic incentive to not connect to the switch fabric at all. Smaller peers could connect to a switch/hub that connected by (say FE) into the same port, larger peers/customers can connect through dedicated ports resulting in a lower overall charge per megabit thruput. (20 FE connections * 30Mbit/s sustained each = 600Mbit/s for $5000/month) -Deepak.
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