<div dir="ltr">Hi Barry,<div><br></div><div>Yes, it is sad that Optus choose to do this... early on they were a leader in Wholesale with XYZed, but they've not innovated or done anything interesting in the space for a long time (wholesale 3G being the best thing) and yes, the bar for spend they set is high, which has limited a lot of smaller players selling their products directly. </div>
<div><br></div><div>This has its positives and negatives for them, but mostly negative for the market. The big negative is that they aren't really all that relevant into todays wholesale market, which you can expect from a carrier with a mostly retail focus - although they suck at the SME space for broadband solutions.</div>
<div><br></div><div>At any time Optus could make themselves more relevant in the market, but I don't think they are very motivated to do much about it... no idea why.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Barry Murphy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barry@vibecommunications.co.nz" target="_blank">barry@vibecommunications.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>It seems many people can provide transit to Optus but to buy off Optus direct you have to have a very large spend.</div>
<div>I have a circuit going live to AAPT in the next month so that will give me a closer AS path to Optus, however was hoping for a more direct link to their AS.</div>
<div>The problem is Optus sometimes prefer us via the US as we peer / buy transit direct in the USA and at current it can be the same AS hop length so we get additional latency.</div>
<div>Hopefully with the AAPT Domestic this will solve things, currently we use Global-Gateway (Telecom NZ), Telstra Global & Vocus to get to AU; so AAPT should be the more direct path.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Hey Barry,
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<div>Talk to Tim Jones at iSeek. They are on Megaport and are a big Optus house for their transit. They will likely deliver you Optus transit over Megaport.</div>
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<div>Looking for a contact at Optus I can speak to for Domestic (Australian) transit that we can purchase over a Megaport VXC.</div>
<div>If you're from optus and can help, please email me off list, else if you know someone from optus that can help with my query please flick me through the details off list.</div>
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<div>Many thanks in advance.</div>
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