[AusNOG] TPG Peering

Joshua D'Alton joshua at railgun.com.au
Wed Oct 22 10:36:51 EST 2014


Making my point for me! Why would TPG add another 10G port when they could
charge (10000/500Mbit)x15000-20000 = 300-400K /month = 4 million per year?

(Actually I thought from Skeeve's research people were seeing ~10/Mbit from
TPG?)

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Nathan Brookfield <
Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au> wrote:

>  More like $15,000-$20,000.
>
> Kindest Regards,
> Nathan Brookfield
>
> Chief Executive Officer
> Simtronic Technologies Pty Ltd
>
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> On 22 Oct 2014, at 10:28, Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au> wrote:
>
>  It probably isn't a matter of cost to TPG, but more lost revenue.
>
>  Why would they spend money to fix a problem (for free for SAU), when
> they could charge SAU $5000/month for that 500Mbit transit?
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Luke Iggleden <
> luke+ausnog at sisgroup.com.au> wrote:
>
>> On 22/10/2014 10:21 am, Craig Askings wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 22 Oct 2014, at 9:15 am, Luke Iggleden <luke+ausnog at sisgroup.com.au>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Why wouldn't TPG add a couple of extra 10G ports to their peering
>>>> network considering their cost is $0.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Because their cost to light up an extra 10G port is greater than $0.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Might as well be $0. They own the fibre in the ground, the existing
>> (presumably) 10GBE switches, peering fabric etc.
>>
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