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Originally posted by MrBandwidth
If you are paying $50 a Meg, they are doing it, bottom line.
I know the per Meg pricing of just about every single backbone provider in the World...and NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE is selling anything for less than 100 per Meg for a GigE handoff (unless the AE begs "Please, this will be a REALLY good customer" and gets deal team approval, and the financial guys are pissed cuz they aren't making any money on this deal, but they sure could use the new monthly revenue).
The reason all the telco's/ISPs in the World are going under, is that they have to compete with the small guys who oversubscribe and undercut the companies they buy from...
Don't be afraid to ask hosts and ISPs who their upstream providers are, how much bandwidth/capacity they have, how full is their "pipe", do they oversubscribe, and if so, to what rate...they will give you this information, if they do not, and back it up, don't do business with them...
MrB
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Go talk to Williams, GlobalCenter, and AT&T with a reasonable commitment. There's 3 for your "1". Plus, the network is not oversubscribed, we have a OC-3 in our office directly to GBLX for IP transit, plus multiple 100Mbps feeds in PHX for other customers and our cache servers, in addition to a nationwide agreement with GBLX for space and connectivity.
Just because you see a single OC-3, doesn't mean our entire
network is comprised of that. There's more than meets the eye.
Oh, if you're still worried about the hosting going on at our location:
30 second input rate 9708000 bits/sec, 11215 packets/sec
30 second output rate 92851000 bits/sec, 13629 packets/sec
60% capacity on the link, and the new network rollout has already started, hence why we have some equipment in GlobalCrossing's datacenter for now.