[LibreQoS] transit and peering costs projections

Sun Oct 15 14:12:56 UTC 2023

Man, I wanna know where you’re getting 100g transit for $4500 a month! Even someone as fly by night as Cogent wants almost double that, unfortunately.

On Oct 15, 2023, at 07:43, Jim Troutman <jamesltroutman at gmail.com> wrote:

Transit 1G wholesale in the right DCs is below $500 per port.  10gigE full port can be had around $1k-1.5k month on long term deals from multiple sources.   100g IP transit ports start around $4k.

The cost of transport (dark or wavelength) is generally at least as much as the IP transit cost, and usually more in underserved markets.  In the northeast it is very hard to get 10GigE wavelengths below $2k/month to any location, and is generally closer to $3k.  100g waves are starting around $4k and go up a lot.

Pricing has come down somewhat over time, but not as fast as transit prices.   6 years ago a 10Gig wave to Boston from Maine would be about $5k/month. Today about $2800.

With the cost of XCs in data centers and transport costs, you generally don’t want to go beyond 2x10gigE before jumping to 100.

On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 19:02 Dave Taht via LibreQoS <libreqos at lists.bufferbloat.net<mailto:libreqos at lists.bufferbloat.net>> wrote:
This set of trendlines was very interesting. Unfortunately the data
stops in 2015. Does anyone have more recent data?

https://drpeering.net/white-papers/Internet-Transit-Pricing-Historical-And-Projected.php

I believe a gbit circuit that an ISP can resell still runs at about
$900 - $1.4k (?) in the usa? How about elsewhere?

...

I am under the impression that many IXPs remain very successful,
states without them suffer, and I also find the concept of doing micro
IXPs at the city level, appealing, and now achievable with cheap gear.
Finer grained cross connects between telco and ISP and IXP would lower
latencies across town quite hugely...

PS I hear ARIN is planning on dropping the price for, and bundling 3
BGP AS numbers at a time, as of the end of this year, also.

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