<div dir="ltr">Shame you just missed my other reply, but it would seem indeed there is a massive pricebook difference in AU now.<div><br></div><div>Quotes I have only 8 months ago are 5x or more what you're alliterating to here..</div>
<div><br></div><div>As a diversion to the OP, what is that said ~$1500 switch and is it truly enterprise grade? Similarly 10k 10G router (full routing table?)? (take off-list I guess).</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Bevan Slattery <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bevan@slattery.net.au" target="_blank">bevan@slattery.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><div style>Josh – please read below</div><div style><br></div><span style><div style="border-right:medium none;padding-right:0in;padding-left:0in;padding-top:3pt;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;border-bottom:medium none;font-family:Calibri;border-top:#b5c4df 1pt solid;padding-bottom:0in;border-left:medium none">
<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Joshua D'Alton <<a href="mailto:joshua@railgun.com.au" target="_blank">joshua@railgun.com.au</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Sunday, 4 August 2013 4:56 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Cameron Daniel <<a href="mailto:cdaniel@nurve.com.au" target="_blank">cdaniel@nurve.com.au</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> "<a href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@ausnog.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@ausnog.net</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [AusNOG] Why is peering in Australia so hard?<br></div><div class="im"><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">"True, but those small ISPs are single homed and will have quite simple setups. Indeed a cross connect or worst case some fiber interconnect might be relatively cheap, but peering requires talking BGP and that for a start requires more expensive gear (lol @ megaport $500/month for 10G, cheap on OPEX sure but a single fiber module will cost you a years worth of peering, and a router another 5-20yrs so the CAPEX is the issue there), and then the engineering side."</div>
</div></span><div style><br></div><div><font color="#1f497d">Not sure if this is an attempt at FUD or just a general lack of understanding where 10G is in the year 2013.</font></div><div><font color="#1f497d"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#1f497d">10G Optics are somewhere between $100-$300 depending on vendor (fibre pair). We also buy single fibre/bi-di 10G SFP+ for less than $500 each. A couple of ISP's connecting to Megaport on Test Drive didn't have any 10G gear so we "loaned" them a Brocade switch (4x10G slots and 24x1G holes) for a grand total cost to us of somewhere around $1,500/switch. In fact I just ordered another 12 of these said switches. Regardless all these providers had 10G on their roadmap within 6-12 months so this is a good "bridge" for them (pun intended).</font></div>
<div><font color="#1f497d"><br></font></div><div><font color="#1f497d">So the actual cost of the optics is so low I'll give them to any Megaport customer because we buy them by the hundreds – literally. And 10G switches are so cheap I buy them by the dozen. 10G capable routers are less than $10k.</font></div>
<div><font color="#1f497d"><br></font></div><div><font color="#1f497d">Probably time to get a new price book me thinks.</font></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><font color="#1f497d"><br></font></div><div>
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