[AusNOG] Transit provider recommendations

[Cameron Daniel]

I'd be interested to know where you're getting this from. Vocus run a 
great transit network but I think second largest is a big call...

On 2013-08-16 4:34 pm, Nathan Brookfield wrote:
> They are the second biggest AU providers of IP Transit after Telstra.
> 
>  Nathan Brookfield
> Chief Executive Officer
> 
> Simtronic Technologies Pty Ltd
> http://www.simtronic.com.au [3]
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>  On 16/08/2013, at 15:40, "Joshua D'Alton" <joshua at railgun.com.au>
> wrote:
> 
> Vocus is a fairly significant AU player, if you're looking for a
> complete alternate path for all your routes then you definitely are
> looking at Go4, most if not all others actually have Vocus in their
> upstreams too funnily enough.
> 
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Andrew Yager <andrew at rwts.com.au>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Yep - preceisly. Vocus is great; rock solid, and very few issues. I
>> can't say never - but they are responsive and quick to act. I
>> considered the "vocus only" approach - because their product is
>> great (read "give me a discount please") - but really we need to be
>> confident that if an issue occurs that we have an alternate path to
>> route the traffic. As people have suggested from a a business
>> perspective, multiple provider routes are important, and really
>> necessary in my mind for getting traffic around.
>> 
>> Thanks for the many who have reached out and responded, still
>> interested in thoughts. :)
>> 
>> Andrew
>> 
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>> On 16/08/2013, at 2:45 PM, Jared Hirst
>> <jared.hirst at serversaustralia.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>>> +1 Dual ports / sessions with Vocus.
>>> 
>>> Never had an issue. *touch wood*
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf
>>> Of Sean K.
>>> Finn
>>> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 2:36 PM
>>> To: 'Andrew Yager'; <AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Transit provider recommendations
>>> 
>>> 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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