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

[John Glendenning]

90% of the wholesale network aggregators I know of rely heavily on AAPT or
TPG on-net tails because they are dirt cheap.

I hope Telstra Wholesale and Optus Wholesale level the playing field or
reseller margin erosion here we come......




On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au>wrote:

> 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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