[AusNOG] Transit provider recommendations

[Luke Iggleden]

While Vocus is a fantastic transit provider, no provider is without 
fault. There have been outages with Vocus and there will be again. I've 
been 'dual homed' with them and experienced outages on both.

Having at least another full service transit provider is definitely the 
best option for business continuity - if you're willing to part with the 
extra $$ and lose some economies of scale.


On 16/08/13 2:36 PM, Sean K. Finn wrote:
> I know this sounds strange, but why not ask Vocus to deliver you diversity themselves?
>
> Possibly they can also provide private backhaul between the two points where they hand off to you, and, heck, maybe even protect it if you ask nicely enough.
>
> I use them for Transit as well as Intercap and other private local connectivity and haven't seen a blip in two years on Intercap or Transit.
>
> May as well get your carrier to do all the hard work in protecting connectivity to your pops - that's what you pay them for.
>
> Sean.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Yager
> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 10:51 AM
> To: <AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net>
> Subject: [AusNOG] Transit provider recommendations
>
> Hi All,
>
> Aware that this question is asked all the time.
>
> Looking for recommendations for a "diverse" path to Vocus for 500Mbps - 1Gbps (95th/burstable) with handoff in GS, Eqx and NextDC M1; preferably with the ability to deliver on a 10G port "in the future" should our needs require.
>
> Had been considering AAPT but had some interesting feedback around product support that is making me think twice. Would be interested in off-list thoughts of other reasonable options. :)
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
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