Marco, If you are considering Level3, you may also want to get a price quote from WBSConnect, who is a Level3 reseller. They can sometimes be very competitive, and give you an idea if you are paying what you should.
I'd be interested in learning what Abovenet quotes you for Gig-E Transit. Also, To share what we did last, we didn't pick a pri and sec, we picked two primary's, and the other PRimary acted as a backup to the other PRimary. Thdn we routed shortest path to each NOC. That however did take some IP space coordination and planning. But the benefit of that was it allowed us to purchase half the amount of bandwdith and gain the same performance. Once each connection is on a Gig-E port, its easy to upgrade either side as demand needed. Then the rare times there are outages, it was OK, if the capacity was a bit over subscribed. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Belton" <b...@belwave.com> To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:10 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] choice of upstreams > AboveNET will layout the exact path your fiber feed will be for you. Just > make sure you're secondary path is completely diverse from whatever you > choose as your primary. > > My suggestion would be to go with AboveNET or Level3 as your primary and > use > Cogent as your secondary. We haven't had any billing issues with any of > our > upstream providers that wasn't easily straightened out. Maybe we've just > been lucky or maybe we just review our agreements more closely and haven't > allowed for any chance of discrepancies. As they say...YMMV! > > Best, > > > Brad > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Marco Coelho > Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:01 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] choice of upstreams > > Our situation is thus: We are leasing a 45 Mile1 Gig fiber link from > Greenville TX to 2323 Bryan ST. in Dallas (carrier hotel). > > My primary need is quality bandwidth. This will become my preferred > route to the world. > Secondary requirement is a company I won't have to spend 1 year > working to get the billing correct. > > I am installing a 1 Gig (800M/800M) licensed PTP link from my NOC to > another lit building in Richardson TX for path diversity. > The choice of carriers here will be more limited. With Abovenet being > one of the primary choices. I do not want this connection to go to > the same carrier as the other connection. > > It's really kind of funny.... I was just a few years ago (12) when > bonded 6 T's together and thought I had all the bandwidth in the > world! Now I'll have and additional 2G at my NOC for less than I was > paying for the 6 Ts. > > Marco > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
