Bandwidth Savings

Thu Jan 12 13:41:03 UTC 2017

At the end of the day it’s a cost/benefit analysis, reading the OP’s message it’s clear that the IX or transit isn’t really the problem, but rather how much traffic traverses to the point of transit/IX. I think until we see some numbers both in terms of traffic and in terms of price to say Miami, Willemstad, etc. we can’t easily determine a good solution.

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Marty Strong
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> On 12 Jan 2017, at 13:38, Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:
> 
> I remember there were a couple different owners down there, but Columbus swallowed them up, then C&W got Columbus then Liberty got C&W. 
> 
> Not knowing the international cable market, is this like AT&T, Comcast or Verizon (the largest US last mile operators) being your only option? 
> 
> 
> 
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> ----- 
> Mike Hammett 
> Intelligent Computing Solutions 
> 
> Midwest Internet Exchange 
> 
> The Brothers WISP 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "Eric Kuhnke" <eric.kuhnke at gmail.com> 
> To: "nanog at nanog.org list" <nanog at nanog.org> 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 3:23:58 PM 
> Subject: Re: Bandwidth Savings 
> 
> The challenges are almost certainly economics related, at the lack of 
> competition and high costs for layer 1/2 transport from his Caribbean 
> island to Miami. Via whatever submarine cables exist that are controlled by 
> larger ILEC type entities/telcos. Or satellite (whether geostationary 
> transponder capacity or o3b). 
> 
> Depending on what island we're talking about, the $$$$$/month for a single 
> 1GbE or 10GbE layer 2 transport service from $ISLAND to Miami will be very 
> high compared to what a network operator in the US 48 states is accustomed 
> to paying. 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Richard Hicks <richard.hicks at gmail.com> 
> wrote: 
> 
>> 
>> I don't know the the Caribbean Internet Exchanges market. Are any worth 
>> peering at versus buying additional L2 bandwidth to Miami? 
>> 
>> https://cw.ams-ix.net/ 
>> http://www.ocix.net/ocix/ 
>> 
>> Rick 
>> 
>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Keenan Singh <keenansingh at airlinktt.net> 
>> wrote: 
>> 
>>> Hi Guys 
>>> 
>>> We are an ISP in the Caribbean, and are faced with extremely high 
>> Bandwidth 
>>> costs, compared to the US, we currently use Peer App for Caching however 
>>> with most services now moving to HTTPS the cache is proving to be less 
>> and 
>>> less effective. We are currently looking at any way we can save on 
>>> Bandwidth or to be more Efficient with the Bandwidth we currently have. 
>> We 
>>> do have a Layer 2 Circuit between the Island and Miami, I am seeing there 
>>> are WAN Accelerators where they would put a Server on either end and sort 
>>> of Compress and decompress the Traffic before it goes over the Layer 2, I 
>>> have never used this before, has any one here used anything like this, 
>> what 
>>> results would I be able to expect for ISP Traffic? 
>>> 
>>> If not any ideas on Bandwidth Savings, or being more Efficient with want 
>> we 
>>> currently. 
>>> 
>>> Many thanks for any Help 
>>> 
>>> Keenan 
>>> 
>> 
> 