<div dir="ltr">Chris,<div><br></div><div>Absolutely.  One of the greatest benefits of Virtual X-Connect Fabrics like Megaport is the On Demand nature of the infrastructure.</div><div><br></div><div>All it will take to shake up the market is someone willing to offer very creative options - including as you suggested, on demand, by the hour or day transit capacity... which I think is an excellent idea and would love to see people offering this sort of product.</div>

<div><br></div><div>The problem with that is the same as the Volume business back in the day... they would sell by the volume, but access ports were normally high... but when there was a massive transit demand, the over subscription would blow out the network.</div>

<div><br></div><div>So, depending on the suppliers pipe sizes, and how much they sell, and if they carefully control their exposure, then certainly it is a viable product.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Chris Gibbs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Chris.Gibbs@gosford.nsw.gov.au" target="_blank">Chris.Gibbs@gosford.nsw.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">







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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Good video Skeeve.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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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
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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.<u></u><u></u></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<u></u><u></u></span></p>


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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 2 July 2014 6:30 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@ausnog.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [AusNOG] Thoughts about IP Transit<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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