[AusNOG] Transit over Megaport - who?

Wed Oct 16 16:09:31 EST 2013

And before everyone gets too far ahead of themselves, this isn¹t about
creating a trading platform/exchange, but about creating a ³directory² of
sorts similar to what Cynosure/ISP list was in the old, old days.  Things
are moving pretty fast with some great products and new entrants.  Just be
good to provide a central resource for people looking for services.

Cheers

[b]

From:  Jason Sinclair <jason.sinclair at megaport.com>
Date:  Wednesday, 16 October 2013 3:00 pm
To:  Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com>, Andrew Yager
<andrew at rwts.com.au>
Cc:  "<ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
Subject:  Re: [AusNOG] Transit over Megaport - who?

Hi Guys,

We are setting up a marketplace as Skeeve has suggested and this will be
available very soon. As part of a survey we will be conducting shortly we
would love to hear from you if you provide services in the following broad
categories. If you could also please let me know what state or DC you
provide these services in that would be extremely helpful so we can include
you in this survey. Please note this survey will be available to the broader
community not just those connected to Megaport. If you require these
services please also feel free to reply noting that. We are simply keen to
understand who is providing what services and conversely who wants these
services. The broad categories are:

1. IP Transit Services
2. Voice Services
3. Wholesale DSL Services
4. Wholesale Ethernet/Layer 2 Services (including wireless)
5. Wholesale NBN Services
6. Cloud Compute
7. Cloud Storage
8. Hosting Services
9. Network Security Services
10. Other
If you believe that you offer services in another category please feel free
to suggest new category headings. Replies off-list are probably best.

Jas

From: Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com>
Date: Wednesday, 16 October 2013 12:37 PM
To: Andrew Yager <andrew at rwts.com.au>
Cc: "<ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Transit over Megaport - who?

Excellent Andrew...

I am going to have to try and keep track of all this.  I think Megaport will
be setting up a marketplace or something... sooner the better I hope.

I am really keen to see how businesses can utilise these solutions... I see
a lot of great solutions where businesses can do to their ISPs, use some
sort of ethernet connectivity (EFM, Layer 2, Dark) from anyone out there
like Vocus, Pipe, AAPT, FirstPath, and get access to services sitting on the
VxC infrastructure.

Let's bring this innovative Service Provider thinking to the Enterprise
market.

...Skeeve

Skeeve Stevens - eintellego Networks Pty Ltd
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<http://www.eintellegonetworks.com/>

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On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Andrew Yager <andrew at rwts.com.au> wrote:
> 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
>> 
>> Skeeve Stevens - eintellego Networks Pty Ltd
>> skeeve at eintellegonetworks.com ; www.eintellegonetworks.com
>> <http://www.eintellegonetworks.com/>
>> 
>> Phone: 1300 239 038; Cell +61 (0)414 753 383
>> <tel:%2B61%20%280%29414%20753%20383>  ; skype://skeeve
>> 
>> facebook.com/eintellegonetworks <http://facebook.com/eintellegonetworks>  ;
>> <http://twitter.com/networkceoau> linkedin.com/in/skeeve
>> <http://linkedin.com/in/skeeve>
>> 
>> twitter.com/theispguy <http://twitter.com/theispguy>  ; blog:
>> www.theispguy.com <http://www.theispguy.com/>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The Experts Who The Experts Call
>> 
>> Juniper - Cisco - Cloud
>> 
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