Well right. With transit so cheap these days, I'd look at it more as an increase in quality than a decrease in expenses.
---------- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom DeReggi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 9:08 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Comcast will also be offering up to 50 Mbps > Yes. If you are doing Gigs of traffic, peering make sense. Maybe even with > a > few 100mbps, depending on the capacity sold to customers. > > But there can also be disadvantages with peering with host sites.... > > 1) Flooding. When they don't have a cost to you, they are more likely to > flood you with their traffic. For example, taking away per session limts > or > more advertizing soliciation traffic. > > 2) Higher expense, if cross connect cost more than average data usage to > them via your transit. For example, $10/mb transit, means must do 37mbps > of > data to the host to at a $370 cross connect charge. > > 3) More congestion if on a public peering switch (single cross conenct). > > 4) Slower speeds to the Peer, if only justify a lower capacity connection > to > peer. Forexample, a 100mbps transit link at 10% usage will perform at > 90mbps to anyone, yet 10- 10mbps peers only get 10mbps max to each > destination. > > > > Tom DeReggi > RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc > IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Hammett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 1:26 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Comcast will also be offering up to 50 Mbps > > >> If you have a network of any real physical size (multiple states) and >> have >> gigs and gigs of usage, you can peer with others. Many Web 2.0 networks >> peer directly with the eyeball networks. >> >> >> ---------- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions >> http://www.ics-il.com >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Tom DeReggi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> >> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 6:54 PM >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Comcast will also be offering up to 50 Mbps >> >> >>> Reality of 50mbps. >>> Well, they can do it eventually, anyone can that offers Fiber. >>> The question is, how quickly do they want to give away their margin? and >>> How quickly can they deploy? >>> Thats the real questions, as long as their is an underserved market, >>> WISPs >>> have a future. >>> How long would it take Comcast or CableVision to roll out Docsis3.0 >>> available to all subscribers? >>> And to all commercial tenant buildings? >>> >>> One of the things to remember is that most Cable companies buy transit, >>> and are not actually a Tier1 themselves. >>> How will that pan out for pricing? They get good rates as long as they >>> are 95% Download traffic. >>> I don't think the cable cos will control the business market, until they >>> also own a significant portion of the server side market. >>> >>> I's ask another question... Who's more of a threat to Business WISPs? >>> Fios >>> or Cable Cos? >>> >>> Tom DeReggi >>> RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc >>> IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >>> >>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >>> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> >> >> -- >> Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. >> Checked by AVG. >> Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.1 - Release Date: 3/26/2008 >> 12:00 AM >> >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
