InterNAP - any comments?
Miguel de Leon Dimayuga
miguel.dimayuga at cbeyond.net
Tue Feb 5 18:05:05 UTC 2002
in their early years, they were fairly pricey for the
performance gain that you'd get. we did some testing
and we didn't think the 10-20% performance gain we got
using their link compared to connecting to a Tier-1 provider,
warranted the 50%-100% additional we had to pay for it.
i haven't had the change to look at their performance recently -
but in talking to some of their techies, they seem to have done a
great deal of improvement from their early software
implementation.
i don't know their current pricing scheme, but you might
want to do some testing for yourself to see if the
% gain is worth the % premium.
assuming that the answer to the above testing is positive,
it seems that internap might make sense for those
that ...
a: put a premium on performance and can't afford multiple
upstream connections. btw, a backup connection/second provider
is always a GoodThingTM and a single internap connection is still
a single point of failure.
b: those entities with multiple sites they want to
interconnect (e.g. large corporations with different
offices in the cities where internap is). you might
want to look into their frac DS3 service for this.
my $0.02...
Miguel de Leon Dimayuga God does not ask us to be successful,
Networks & Technologies only to be faithful.
Cbeyond Communications -Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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