[AusNOG] Attempting to understand DC internet connectivity

[Harry Chan]

Hi Richard, on such low commits most providers won’t differentiate between local / international or there won’t be much price difference or advantage. It only makes a difference once your commit a lot higher.

 

Some upstreams have minimum bandwidth requirements. Some don’t.

 

Is there a particular goal you have in mind in regards to this? Do you need to the lowest latency to certain destinations?

 

Cheers,

 

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Harry Chan

 

From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Richard Thornton
Sent: Monday, 13 April 2015 5:23 PM
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: [AusNOG] Attempting to understand DC internet connectivity

 

Hello Everybody,

 

Newbie here, hopefully this hasn't been asked before (I couldn't see a way to search the archives) so please be gentle.

 

Say I go direct to one of the big Sydney DC providers and take up whatever minimum RU they require, say it's Equinix, it looks like I can take their (already highly redundant) internet product or I can bake my own by peering with other (national and international) upstream providers that I choose and Equinix will cross connect me to them, is that correct?

 

What would be the (very) rough setup costs involved and per mbit / per month costs for say 30mbit (combined 2 peers international and 2 peers national, I ask this because I don't think most DC internet products separate international and national) or 10mbit (2 peers international) / 20mbit (2 peers national) as well as any advantages/disadvantages of each method? (in both cases assume I have the equipment and expertise to install and configure it all).

 

Apologies if I haven't asked this properly, essentially what  I am asking is whether it is considerably cheaper to build a resilient internet connection by buying direct from upstream peers like Vocus for such low bandwidth, is it even possible, do they have a minimum bandwidth requirement for customers?

 

Thanks for looking.

 

Best regards

Richard

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