<div dir="ltr">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.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Andrew Yager <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@rwts.com.au" target="_blank">andrew@rwts.com.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">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the many who have reached out and responded, still interested in thoughts. :)</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Andrew</div></font></span><div><div class="im">
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<br></div><div><div class="h5"><div><div>On 16/08/2013, at 2:45 PM, Jared Hirst <<a href="mailto:jared.hirst@serversaustralia.com.au" target="_blank">jared.hirst@serversaustralia.com.au</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
+1 Dual ports / sessions with Vocus.<br><br>Never had an issue. *touch wood*<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: AusNOG [mailto:<a href="mailto:ausnog-" target="_blank">ausnog-</a><a href="mailto:bounces@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a>] On Behalf Of Sean K.<br>
Finn<br>Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 2:36 PM<br>To: 'Andrew Yager'; <<a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a>><br>Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Transit provider recommendations<br>
<br>I know this sounds strange, but why not ask Vocus to deliver you diversity<br>themselves?<br><br>Possibly they can also provide private backhaul between the two points<br>where they hand off to you, and, heck, maybe even protect it if you ask<br>
nicely enough.<br><br>I use them for Transit as well as Intercap and other private local<br>connectivity and haven't seen a blip in two years on Intercap or Transit.<br><br>May as well get your carrier to do all the hard work in protecting<br>
connectivity to your pops - that's what you pay them for.<br><br>Sean.<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: AusNOG [mailto:<a href="mailto:ausnog-" target="_blank">ausnog-</a><a href="mailto:bounces@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a>] On Behalf Of Andrew<br>
Yager<br>Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 10:51 AM<br>To: <<a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a>><br>Subject: [AusNOG] Transit provider recommendations<br><br>Hi All,<br><br>
Aware that this question is asked all the time.<br><br>Looking for recommendations for a "diverse" path to Vocus for 500Mbps -<br>1Gbps (95th/burstable) with handoff in GS, Eqx and NextDC M1; preferably<br>with the ability to deliver on a 10G port "in the future" should our needs<br>
require.<br><br>Had been considering AAPT but had some interesting feedback around product<br>support that is making me think twice. Would be interested in off-list<br>thoughts of other reasonable options. :)<br><br>Thanks,<br>
Andrew<br><br>--<br>Andrew Yager, Managing Director (MACS Snr CP BCompSc MCP MCE<br>JNCIA-Junos)<br>Real World Technology Solutions Pty Ltd - IT people you can trust<br>ph: 1300 798 718 or (02) 9037 0500<br>fax: (02) 9037 0591 mob: 0405 152 568<br>
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