Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly?
Michael Hallgren
m.hallgren at free.fr
Fri May 25 16:14:52 UTC 2012
Le vendredi 25 mai 2012 à 16:04 +0000, Ashish Rastogi a écrit :
> Price is probably for high availability and high SLA standards.
Yes, hopefully not for simple BGP route exchange...! :)
mh
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> Ashish Rastogi
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> Subject: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly?
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> Hello everyone
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> 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?
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> Thanks!
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