[AusNOG] Transit provider recommendations
Jared Hirst
jared.hirst at serversaustralia.com.au
Fri Aug 16 21:14:14 EST 2013
Agree, but still cool to have that considering they are a young company :)
Regards,
Jared Hirst
Servers Australia Pty Ltd
Phone: +61 2 8115 8888
Direct: +61 2 8115 8801
On 16 Aug 2013, at 9:13 pm, Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au> wrote:
Uh they don't have the most routes in AU, Telstra does. Then TPG, PIPE,
then Vocus, Singtel, Internode and so on. Sort by routes :)
Highest adjacencies doesn't really mean much in terms of how much transit
amount (mbps or $$) either.
Maybe Nathan can elaborate what metric he's using.
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Nathan Brookfield <
Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au> wrote:
> Highest adjacencies also.
>
>
> Nathan Brookfield
> Chief Executive Officer
>
> Simtronic Technologies Pty Ltd
> http://www.simtronic.com.au
>
> On 16/08/2013, at 20:54, "Jared Hirst" <
> jared.hirst at serversaustralia.com.au> wrote:
>
> According to he.net they have the most amount of routes in AU!
>
> http://bgp.he.net/country/AU
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jared Hirst
> Servers Australia Pty Ltd
> Phone: +61 2 8115 8888
> Direct: +61 2 8115 8801
>
> On 16 Aug 2013, at 8:35 pm, Cameron Daniel <cdaniel at nurve.com.au> wrote:
>
> 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]
>
> 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*
>
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> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Transit provider recommendations
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> 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.
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> Yager
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> Subject: [AusNOG] Transit provider recommendations
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> 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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