[AusNOG] Transit over Megaport - who?

[Skeeve Stevens]

Brent,

You guys going to offer any of your products on Megaport VxC?


...Skeeve

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On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Brent Paddon <brent.paddon at gmail.com>wrote:

> Its certainly going to change the way we all buy (and sell) services to
> each other.  Definitely going to break down the current somewhat high
> inter-DC connectivity costs.
>
> I think the model that they've come up with is a winner and I'd be awfully
> surprised if there isn't a significant amount of traffic (mainly on the
> VXC's) pretty shortly...as soon as the rollout has reached that critical
> mass.
>
> I expect to see a LOT more connectivity between people (especially for
> those selling aggregation ports / last-mile access products), transit,
> cloudy stuff, etc.  The current pain-in-arse of being in different DC's is
> pretty much going to go away.  Heck, we all know what the cost of
> cross-connects _inside_ DC's is like at the moment.
>
> I also think that forcing people to go 10G is a smart move.
>
> We have our testing port up and running in Equinix - but yet to do any
> VXCs.   Hopefully bringing on a Brisbane port shortly.
>
> Brent
>
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> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Skeeve Stevens <
> skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey Macca,
>>
>> I know you say unaffiliated, but I also know this product of Megaport
>> directly competes with Vocus fibre to a certain degree.
>>
>> Let's be honest... we're not talking running things over peering here...
>> I really don't see any quality difference running a VLAN over layer 2
>> Vocus/AAPT/Pipe/others and Megaport...   sounds more like a scare tactic to
>> be honest.  Unless you have insight that you would like to share (honestly,
>> I'd like to know)
>>
>> If we are talking dark vs. layer 2, then I would agree.... but I am also
>> not suggesting everyone run absolutely everything over one Megaport
>> connection... go dual feeds if you want.. I am sure they'd sell it.  But...
>> I see something interesting here, and I see it as the future of how
>> inter-dc connections will be one - whether it is Megaport, or Vocus or Pipe
>> get in on the game too... I see it as a great idea.
>>
>>
>> ...Skeeve
>>
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>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:42 PM, McDonald Richards <
>> McDonald.Richards at vocus.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>>  All my mission critical services on the one physical port and cabling?
>>> I can't wait!
>>>
>>>  Macca
>>> (unaffiliated in this context)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 15/10/2013, at 3:24 PM, "Skeeve Stevens" <
>>> skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>   OK all,
>>>
>>>  The time is arriving for DC-Virtual Cross-Connects to become a useful
>>> part of our ISP lives.
>>>
>>>  Whether it is Megaport, or other fibre providers who choose to
>>> replicate the model, the Megaport one is what we've got at the moment, and
>>> we might as well start using it.
>>>
>>>  I've been having a few discussions with people about buying
>>> connectivity (not just transit) over the Megaport VxC fabric, but I am not
>>> sure if anyone out there has productised the selling of products over the
>>> VxC fabric.
>>>
>>>  I know people like Amazon AWS will now allow you to connect to them
>>> over Megaport with a Direct Connect... and that is great.
>>>
>>>  What I am looking for are some transit providers who are on, or
>>> getting on Megaport, who will sell either Transit or Wholesale services
>>> over the fabric.
>>>
>>>  I was at an event recently, when Jason Ashton said that he was willing
>>> to do BigAir wholesale interconnects over Megaport - and that is an awesome
>>> start.  What I would love to see is people like AAPT, iSeek, M2 and others
>>> be able to sell more wholesale tails over this fabric.
>>>
>>>  Transit should be an easy one. for $200 intrastate between any
>>> connected DC's, with capacity up to the connection of your pipe (10Gb or
>>> 100Gb), I see people selling transit as a no-brainer.
>>>
>>> If you are doing this and want to announce it here, awesome... or if you
>>> don't want to announce yet, but happy to let me know - I will keep it quiet
>>> until you are ready to announce it.
>>>
>>>  Also... other IXs... Pipe, Australia IX, Equinix Peering - have you
>>> thought of connecting to Megaport for the VxC, so people can actually use
>>> the Megaport fabric to get onto your IX as well?
>>>
>>> ...Skeeve
>>>
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