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

[Joshua D'Alton]

Which strategy? securepay are a end-user provider not just a middleman.


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:40 PM, John Lindsay <johnslindsay at mac.com> wrote:

> TPG aren't interested in your strategy. They're already in the end-game
> where you are not a player. Find business partners who always act in your
> interest and work with them. Failing that, force them to via contracts.
>
> John Lindsay
>
> On 14 Jan 2014, at 10:35 pm, Chris Ricks <chris.ricks at securepay.com.au>
> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
> ...Skeeve
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> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Matt Palmer <mpalmer at hezmatt.org> wrote:
>
>> 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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