single homed public-peer bandwidth ... pricing survey ?

From: Jason Arnaute (no email)
Date: Tue Mar 06 2007 - 16:51:39 EST

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    Hello,

    I am currently hosted in a small, independent
    datacenter that has 4 or 5 public peers (L3, Sprint,
    UUnet, AT&T and ... ?)

    They are a very nice facility, very technical and
    professional, and have real people on-site 24 hours
    per day ... remote hands, etc. All very high end and
    well managed.

    But, I am charged between $150 and $180 per megabit/s
    for non-redundant, single-homed bandwidth (not sure
    which provider they put it on) and even if I commit to
    20 or 30 megabits/s it still only drops down to $100 -
    $120 per megabit/s.

    So naturally, I am very interested when I see HE.NET
    offering bandwidth for $20/mb/s, and it looks like
    Level3 is selling for $30/mb/s...

    Are there two classes of bandwidth in the world ? Is
    it reasonable and expected that single homed public
    peered bandwidth is, circa Jan 2007, going for above
    $100/mb/s while private peered bandwidth like L3 and
    HE.NET is $30 and below ?

    Or am I just getting ripped off ?

    Where can I go to read and learn more about the
    advantages and disadvantages (from a networking
    standpoint) of switching from an independent, public
    peered datacenter to, say, L3 or HE.NET ?

    Thanks.

     
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