[AusNOG] Transit over Megaport - who?

[Andrew Yager]

Realising that there is a lot of water flowing over this one, but we are
actually really excited about the MegaPort concept. We have MegaPorts in
Equinix and Global Switch, NextDC M1 and will be adding in S1 and B1
shortly. We deliberately chose to do this to add redundancy to the product.
We'll continue to maintain our dark fibre rings between DCs so our
backbones will still move traffic separate to this; but the interstate
provides a flexible and redundant interstate option that can scale up and
down as needed.

Of course, some services will still be best delivered over dedicated Cross
Connects, but the flexibility and dynamic nature of this product excites me.

We are currently selling and able to deliver over MegaPort:

   - Transit (minmum commit 1 week, speeds up to 1Gbps)
   - VoIP
   - DSL/NBN/Fibre (some dark, some metro)

The great thing with this product is the flexibility. It means it is (at
the moment) a no-cost trial for any one of the products - just pay for what
you use.

In the next couple of weeks we'll be launching our metro-ethernet on-demand
product. It's exactly the same concept as MegaPort, but delivering last
mile fibre on demand, for demand (1 day + contract commits, at not 24 month
pricing). What's unique about this is that we're working with a number of
cloud hosting providers to allow the service to be directly delivered to
them. We take care of the network, and they connect customers to their
infrastructure - they take care of the hosting. MegaPort makes the bulk of
this possible because we will be delivering these services over the
MegaPort VXC fabric in most cases.

I (and some of the others involved in this) will probably make a lot more
noise about it when it's actually launched later this month though. :)

Andrew



On 15 October 2013 15:22, 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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