Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly?

Fri May 25 16:04:08 UTC 2012

Price is probably for high availability and high SLA standards.

Ashish Rastogi

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From: Anurag Bhatia [me at anuragbhatia.com]
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 12:01 PM
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Subject: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly?

Hello everyone

I have been aggressively looking for deals in servers in Europe for
anycasting. One thing which surprises me is the "setup costs" for BGP. Few
providers quoted additional $50-100 which looks OK but a few of them quoted
as high as $150 *extra every month* just for having BGP (no full routing
table, but just default route pointing). Is there's any technical logic
behind such heavy costs? I mean at the end of day we are all talking at
layer 3 and thus it does not involves any hard connection/physical work.
What other members pay for BGP setup costs?

Thanks!

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