[AusNOG] Server BW limits

[Joshua D'Alton]

It will fall when content providers who peer with most of the other ISPs
have their transit links saturated and customers at the big 4 (mostly
telstra and optus) want to improve their speeds. Currently that isn't
really happening because said providers can afford to pay to keep the
transit links below 80%.

NBN will be interesting, it probably won't make much difference to domestic
transit unless through economies of scale, the real problem is the last
mile price which currently without NBN means being reamed by one of the big
4 even just for backhaul let alone the copper or port pricing depending on
how much gear/networking an ISP has.

If there was a little more cooperation amongst the top 10 non-gang-of-4
they could probably do something about it. Or if the government just
stepped in and told them to stop being assholes :D

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Zone Networks - Joel <
joel at zonenetworks.com.au> wrote:

> I cant see how the gang of 4 will allow transit price to fall domestically
> for it to even come close to US pricing, EU pricing is even cheaper than US
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> Yes I agree the transit pricing has fallen in the past 2-3 years, but to
> my “limited” knowledge it was due to competition for international links
> that saw price reduction on southern cross****
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> Can someone “pls explain” how we can see domestic transit price falling
> even with the help of NBN  ?****
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> Regards****
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> Joel****
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> *From:* ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:
> ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Joshua D'Alton
> *Sent:* Sunday, 26 August 2012 3:24 PM
> *To:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Server BW limits****
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> Well the thing is OP was talking about fairly significant amounts of
> bandwidth. Even were it not to be latency related, using AWS at those
> levels will be quite expensive. 1TB of bandwidth from EC2 is for example
> between $100 and $200 depending on location etc. So for someone in
> Australia to be wanting to do that level of bandwidth, $100-200/TB is quite
> a lot for a dedicated service vs elastic.****
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> There doesn't seem to be any business willing to step up and provide a
> service instead of just profiteering, not yet anyway..****
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> With NBN possibly coming, the first to work out how and to start servicing
> Aussies (and NZers) at reasonable prices, will be doing everyone a service.
> With inter-city cap dropping to $10/Mbit it is easily possible to be
> selling 1:1 uncontended 1TB for $50 and be making more than enough money.
> Here's to the future!****
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> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Tim March <march.tim at gmail.com> wrote:***
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> On 26/08/12 10:57 AM, Noel Butler wrote:****
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> Hell, the U.S. even pays less than half what we pay for power per kwH
> (9-13c that I know of, probably some even less), everything in AU is an
> utter rip off, and once businesses figure out the impact of the latest
> how-do-we-fuck-aussies-up-more tax, errr I mean carbon tax, which may take
> most SMB 6 months or so to decisively work out its impact, direct and
> indirect, so they can justify price increases to the wankers in govt who
> want to try threaten them for trying to survive - costs will likely rise
> further again****
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> I recently reviewed a facility space quote on behalf of a customer that
> included a 'Carbon Tax Supplement' of $54.00 per cabinet. From memory it
> included ~ 2kW of power with additional 1kW blocks running up ~ $850ea.
> Adding in the $1,675 base price per cabinet means you're then looking at
> $3,239 for a standard 3.84kW cabinet before you even think about putting
> data services in it.
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> Unless I need some serious grunt (eg. cabinets stacked 3 deep with 16-slot
> blade enclosures) that absolutely has to be on shore it just makes more
> sense to use providers like EC2 for most applications.
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> 2c.****
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