<div dir="ltr">The port costs of Megaport are extremely low... I am regularly surprised how misunderstood they are since they are so simple.<div><br></div><div>A $500 basic port charge for 10Gb access and free IX over it is a dream price. The costs of VxC's are only $200 inter-dc which are speed agnostic. The fact you can do this for 1 day for $20 is astounding.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, if you are a supplier, and people are initiating the connection to you, you pay nothing for this.</div><div><br></div><div>This cost structure seems to be very economical to me. Not only that, once there are other VxC players - which I believe NextGen is launching soon, and perhaps others, there will be an interesting amount of options out there.</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Kristoffer Sheather @ CloudCentral <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kristoffer.sheather@cloudcentral.com.au" target="_blank">kristoffer.sheather@cloudcentral.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>This kind of model upons up the idea of treating network as tradeable commodities leading to arbitrate opportunities etc. Very interesting stuff. The future will be exciting.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Expanding your rationale, instead of purchasing overhead in transit speed, wouldn’t it be more efficient to source transit over megaport (or other??) and pay per hour/day/month/whatever. Potentially even grabbing upstream from a ‘transit broker’ (I don’t even know if they exist?) that is a clearing house for current unused upsteam? Similar to spot reserve in EC2 I’d imagine </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Sure have dedicated upstream for known traffic patterns but ‘burst’ out for anything else.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Couple it with a decent API and an underlying programmable network and I think it could be decent</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This video isn't meant to stir up people, but I am sure it may, especially those selling transit in a certain way. This video is more about educating people about the value of transit in certain kinds of ways. It is about 14 mins long, but I'd like to know what you thought if you have time to watch it.</p>
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