[AusNOG] Transit provider recommendations

[Nathan Brookfield]

They are the second biggest AU providers of IP Transit after Telstra.

Nathan Brookfield
Chief Executive Officer

Simtronic Technologies Pty Ltd
http://www.simtronic.com.au

On 16/08/2013, at 15:40, "Joshua D'Alton" <joshua at railgun.com.au<mailto:joshua at railgun.com.au>> wrote:

Vocus is a fairly significant AU player, if you're looking for a complete alternate path for all your routes then you definitely are looking at Go4, most if not all others actually have Vocus in their upstreams too funnily enough.


On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Andrew Yager <andrew at rwts.com.au<mailto:andrew at rwts.com.au>> wrote:
Hi All,

Yep - preceisly. Vocus is great; rock solid, and very few issues. I can't say never - but they are responsive and quick to act. I considered the "vocus only" approach - because their product is great (read "give me a discount please") - but really we need to be confident that if an issue occurs that we have an alternate path to route the traffic.  As people have suggested from a a business perspective, multiple provider routes are important, and really necessary in my mind for getting traffic around.

Thanks for the many who have reached out and responded, still interested in thoughts. :)

Andrew

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On 16/08/2013, at 2:45 PM, Jared Hirst <jared.hirst at serversaustralia.com.au<mailto:jared.hirst at serversaustralia.com.au>> wrote:

+1 Dual ports / sessions with Vocus.

Never had an issue. *touch wood*

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Finn
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 2:36 PM
To: 'Andrew Yager'; <AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net>>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Transit provider recommendations

I know this sounds strange, but why not ask Vocus to deliver you diversity
themselves?

Possibly they can also provide private backhaul between the two points
where they hand off to you, and, heck, maybe even protect it if you ask
nicely enough.

I use them for Transit as well as Intercap and other private local
connectivity and haven't seen a blip in two years on Intercap or Transit.

May as well get your carrier to do all the hard work in protecting
connectivity to your pops - that's what you pay them for.

Sean.

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Yager
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 10:51 AM
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Subject: [AusNOG] Transit provider recommendations

Hi All,

Aware that this question is asked all the time.

Looking for recommendations for a "diverse" path to Vocus for 500Mbps -
1Gbps (95th/burstable) with handoff in GS, Eqx and NextDC M1; preferably
with the ability to deliver on a 10G port "in the future" should our needs
require.

Had been considering AAPT but had some interesting feedback around product
support that is making me think twice. Would be interested in off-list
thoughts of other reasonable options. :)

Thanks,
Andrew

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fax: (02) 9037 0591 mob: 0405 152 568
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