NANOG67 - Tipping point of community and sponsor bashing?

Dave Temkin dave at temk.in
Fri Jun 17 16:50:45 UTC 2016


Starting to see people like Telehouse move into the monthly XC market, so
one might think we're at the precipice of the slippery slope.

And with Equinix buying Telecity, how long until we see US-style XCs in
Europe?

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:

> Leo Bicknell wrote:
> > Cross connects are our industry's $100 gold plated HDMI cables.
>
> In the US maybe.  Cross-connect prices are much more reasonable in
> Europe (€0 - €50/month).
>
> Personally, I don't have a problem with MRCs when ordering
> cross-connects: data centres are expensive to build and run.  But yeah,
> $300/m is nuts and that price point has zero relationship to the cost of
> delivery of the service.
>
> Nick
>
>



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