[AusNOG] Transit over Megaport - who?

[McDonald Richards]

Nope. Unaffiliated. Really.

MC-LAG me over a pair of fibres and you'll negate this but you seriously can't let us all sit back and let the fan boys roll without stirring the pot a little.

Macca
(still unaffiliated w/ regard to this thread)



On 15/10/2013, at 4:02 PM, "Skeeve Stevens" <skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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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