[AusNOG] Thoughts about IP Transit

[Skeeve Stevens]

Excellent.. I would love to know more.  Joe?!  Send me details... the more
VxC's the better... LOVING IT.


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On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Nathan Brookfield <
Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au> wrote:

>  I believe Australia IX had launched there's yesterday as well.
>
> Kindest Regards,
> Nathan Brookfield
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> On 2 Jul 2014, at 22:54, "Skeeve Stevens" <
> skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:
>
>  The port costs of Megaport are extremely low... I am regularly surprised
> how misunderstood they are since they are so simple.
>
>  A $500 basic port charge for 10Gb access and free IX over it is a dream
> price.  The costs of VxC's are only $200 inter-dc which are speed agnostic.
>  The fact you can do this for 1 day for $20 is astounding.
>
>  Also, if you are a supplier, and people are initiating the connection to
> you, you pay nothing for this.
>
>  This cost structure seems to be very economical to me.  Not only that,
> once there are other VxC players - which I believe NextGen is launching
> soon, and perhaps others, there will be an interesting amount of options
> out there.
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> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Kristoffer Sheather @ CloudCentral <
> kristoffer.sheather at cloudcentral.com.au> wrote:
>
>>  It's the age old capacity planning and yield management question.  How
>> do I extract the best return on capital from my fixed infrastructure
>> investment.  Purchasing smaller amounts of fixed capacity via Megaport is a
>> good idea, but you'll need to weigh that up versus the Megaport port
>> charges and higher 'spot pricing'.
>>
>> This kind of model upons up the idea of treating network as tradeable
>> commodities leading to arbitrate opportunities etc.  Very interesting
>> stuff.  The future will be exciting.
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>> *From*: "Chris Gibbs" <Chris.Gibbs at gosford.nsw.gov.au>
>> *Sent*: 02 July 2014 21:37
>> *To*: "Skeeve Stevens" <skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com>, "AusNOG (
>> AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net)" <AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net>
>> *Subject*: Re: [AusNOG] Thoughts about IP Transit
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>>
>> Good video Skeeve.
>>
>>
>>
>> Expanding your rationale, instead of purchasing overhead in transit
>> speed, wouldn’t it be more efficient to source transit over megaport (or
>> other??) and pay per hour/day/month/whatever. Potentially even grabbing
>> upstream from a ‘transit broker’ (I don’t even know if they exist?) that is
>> a clearing house for current unused upsteam? Similar to spot reserve in EC2
>> I’d imagine
>>
>>
>>
>> Sure have dedicated upstream for known traffic patterns but ‘burst’ out
>> for anything else.
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>> Couple it with a decent API and an underlying programmable network and I
>> think it could be decent
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>> Cheers,
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>> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Skeeve
>> Stevens
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, 2 July 2014 6:30 PM
>> *To:* ausnog at ausnog.net
>> *Subject:* [AusNOG] Thoughts about IP Transit
>>
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>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>>
>>
>> This is a follow-up video relating to the current state of the transit
>> space discussion recently.  I thought I would get some thoughts out of my
>> head as a lot of people ask me about transit and I thought others might
>> find it useful.
>>
>>
>>
>> This video isn't meant to stir up people, but I am sure it may,
>> especially those selling transit in a certain way.  This video is more
>> about educating people about the value of transit in certain kinds of ways.
>>  It is about 14 mins long, but I'd like to know what you thought if you
>> have time to watch it.
>>
>>
>>
>> http://theispguy.com/thoughts-about-transit/
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>> ...Skeeve
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>>
>> *Skeeve Stevens - *eintellego Networks Pty Ltd
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