Co-lo best practices on IP allocations

Tue Mar 18 22:20:08 UTC 2003

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Daniel Abbey wrote:

>
> Are there any suggestions/ideas on best practices when it comes to co-lo
> allocation of addresses to its customers? Is there any site that may have
> some pointers? The dilemma is whether to charge or no to charge separate for
> the IPs. Should it be a cause built into their overall contract? Any ideas?

My approach (I don't think there is anything close to a BCP for this):

Charge if they'll pay, don't if they demand it for free. It's a great fee
to knock off to close the deal.

But only give them what they can justify, unless they are potentially a
huge revenue customer, to who you would give whatever they want (within
reason).

$50 per /24 at the high end, $5 per /29 at the low end.

Andy

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