[AusNOG] Megaport Suspends Accepting New Orders in PIPE DC's

[Chris Ricks]

>From my company's persepctive, carrier diversity is a critical part of
network design (unless there simply isn't a means of achieving said
diversity).

Policies such as the one TPG *appear* to be pushing (first Vocus and now
Megaport) would be a dealbreaker for us, and I know I'm not alone in
that thinking.

- Chris

On 14/01/2014 8:59 PM, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
> Of course they are going to launch a competing product, but they will
> have fun delivering it to any DC they don't own.
>
> If they push the issue with Megaport, then other DC's will probably do
> the same right back at them... I think it is an extremely dumb move on
> their behalf.
>
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> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Matt Palmer <mpalmer at hezmatt.org
> <mailto:mpalmer at hezmatt.org>> wrote:
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>     On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 05:26:31AM +0000, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker
>     wrote:
>     > Devil's advocate, what if they are not looking to win, but to
>     delay ..
>
>     I suppose they could have a competing product to Megaport in the
>     works, but
>     if so, they've done themselves out of a few customers through
>     their actions
>     so far.  Not a great way to start a product launch...
>
>     - Matt
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