<div dir="ltr">My employer recently had links quoted in India (our Indian offices are currently served by a local provider) as part of a global WAN link consolidation project.<div><br></div><div>The prices from global vendors for links of the same quoted service speed were 10x what we currently pay the local provider.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It may well be viable to pay for a point-to-point link locally within India with a local provider from your office to a datacentre where a global carrier already has a POP, and then pay for the carriage from that point to Australia.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I find the carrier market in India to have some "unique" aspects that have me facepalming at various times. Happy to share some experienced offline.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 12 May 2014 09:13, Jared Hirst <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jared.hirst@serversaustralia.com.au" target="_blank">jared.hirst@serversaustralia.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 lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I am after some suggestions for a 2/2 or 4/4 private link uncontended from Cochi, Kerala in India back to Australia.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">We have a few services there now, but need a more reliable and un-contended direct link to AU. If anyone on the list knows of anyone, or can suggest me to look in the right place that would be great.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">On and Off list replies are fine.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">
Jared<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
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