Do you have a connection to the closest internet exchange? Usually it's cheaper to get a 10G pipe to the exchange and pick up free bandwidth from Netflix/Google/Akamai/etc rather then upgrade your upstream pipes. Plus once you're at the IX with a router/switch you could easily pick up an inexpensive upstream carrier there rather than paying for multiple big pipes back to your area. This is what we do. Saves a lot.
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 11, 2016, at 14:46, TJ Trout <t...@voltbb.com> wrote: > > I currently have two 1g upstreams and quickly running out of capacity, how > have you guys handled this in the past for those that have been through this? > Do you upgrade one pipe and hope it doesn't go down? Upgrade them both to the > same speed ? > > Also for these two providers its super expensive for a 10g port even with 1g > bandwidth, looks like I'll have to get multiple 1g pipes before it makes > since to go with a single 10g port, how have you done this? Just multiple bgp > sessions? > > I don't understand the logic of charging so much more for a 10g interface > when it's lighting the same glass?
