I also look at hand-off locations (as long as it doesn't compromise the overall robustness of the design).
Most providers will be able to hand-off in the BMMR of a carrier hotel and some will have the flexibility to hand-off in particular suites within the same building or other locations near where the cross-connects fees are lower. I've seen cross-connect fees between $50 up to $750 MRC so if you need multiple wavelengths (for capacity), the cross-connect fees are going to make a huge difference on the total MRC. Eric On Dec 14 2018, at 12:17 pm, Mehmet Akcin <meh...@akcin.net> wrote: > Thank you everyone incredible amounts of responses for my how to choose a > transit provider smail earlier. > > How do you choose transport & backbone? > > Looking at key aspects like route information, diversity, aerial vs under > ground fiber, age of fiber, outage history, length, but what else? > > I will get both transport and transit as two seperate blogs. > > I will also submit as a nanog paper for the meeting after next, or maybe > next? I am probably too late by now. > > Thank you for all your help. I will add your names to the thank you line ;-) > -- > Mehmet > +1-424-298-1903 > >
