[AusNOG] Hosted SBC on Megaport

[Bevan Slattery]

Two words. Straw man.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

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> On 10 Nov 2014, at 10:29 pm, Shane Short <shane at short.id.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bevan,
> 
> I think you're missing my point here-- my post wasn't taking a shot at Megaport, you're the one who took it that way.
> I'm fully aware of the benefits of Virtual Cross Connects, I was simply asking if the service *must* be delivered via VXC, as by doing so-- he's narrowing his list of possible providers.
> 
> I'm glad you've touched on Security below-- are the VXC products encrypted in any way? As Megaport is a licensed carrier-- if they get a LI request, can that traffic be intercepted at the layer 2 level?
> 
> -Shane
> 
> 
> Bevan Slattery wrote:
>> I¹ll move past the name calling :)
>> 
>> To directly answer your question I¹ll provide three (3) examples of other
>> providers offering customers the ability to direct connect networks as an
>> alternative to peering or transit.
>> 
>> Amazon quote 6 main reasons for Direct Connect
>> http://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/
>> 
>> - Reduces your bandwidth costs
>> - Consistent Network Performance
>> - Compatible with all your Amazon VPC
>> - Private Connectivty to your Amazon VPC
>> - Elastic
>> - Simple
>> 
>> Microsoft provides 6 main reasons for Azure ExpressRoute:
>> http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/expressroute/
>> 
>> - Private Connections to Azure
>> - Increased Reliability and Speed
>> - Lower Latencies
>> - Higher Security
>> - Significant Costs Benefits
>> - Directly Connect from your WAN
>> 
>> Google Cloud/Compute States about their GCI product
>> https://cloud.google.com/interconnect
>> 
>> "Connecting with GCI will enable your infrastructure to connect to Google
>> Cloud with higher availability and lower latency connections."
>> 
>> The Megaport VXC info is available here
>> http://www.megaport.com/services/megaport-vxcs.html
>> 
>> You can light up a VXC (think VLAN) from as little as 100Mbps to
>> 10,000Mbps between ports for $20 per day or $200/month regardless of
>> speed.  So you want to spin up a 5,000Mbps connection to someone to backup
>> 200TB of data - $20/day.  You have greater protection of being DDoS¹d,
>> interception, greater stability in latency and have guaranteed capacity.
>> 
>> But where it gets sexy and where the other guys are already taking it is
>> that they have integrated our API into their systems, so that if someone
>> wants to buy a service from AWS they automagically provision the silicon
>> at AWS and the circuit for that customer without touching a single thing.
>> Some hosting providers are already taking it the other way.  Transit
>> providers will be doing the same very soon.
>> 
>> If you want to actually take time to read about what we are doing, I think
>> you could be pleasantly surprised.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> [b]
>> 
>> 
>> From:  Shane Short<shane at short.id.au>
>> Date:  Monday, 10 November 2014 9:36 pm
>> To:  Bevan Slattery<bevan at slattery.net.au>
>> Cc:  Skeeve Stevens<skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com>,
>> "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net"<ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
>> Subject:  Re: [AusNOG] Hosted SBC on Megaport
>> 
>> 
>> If you're implying what I
>> think you're implying-- I wasn't schilling for a specific product (link
>> you were the other day), I was simply asking for a qualification if the
>> Megaport portion was actually required, as there's a heap of options
>> that he's ruling out by requiring it.
>> 
>> But hey, if we want to be fangirls for the sake of being fangirls-- go
>> for it.
>> 
>> Kind Regards,
>> Shane Short
>> 
>> Bevan Slattery wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>   Hahaha.  The irony here is delicious.
>> 
>> [b]
>> 
>> On 10 Nov 2014, at 9:16 pm, Shane Short<shane at short.id.au>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Excuse my ignorance, but
>> what does doing this specifically over Megaport really buy you?
>> 
>> I'm sure there's heaps of providers that could offer you this service
>> over any number of methods including IX, Peering Arrangements and
>> Transit.
>> 
>> -Shane
>> 
>> Skeeve Stevens wrote:
>> 
>> This might be an odd question.
>> Anyone
>> 
>>  out there who would offer virtualised Session Border Controller's
>> deliverable over Megaport.
>> 
>> Not knowing much
>> about VoiP and SBC's... Sorry if this is a stupid question.
>> 
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