How to choose a transport(terrestrial/subsea)

Sat Dec 15 16:52:19 UTC 2018

No cost affective 10x10G to 100G muxponder?

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On Dec 15, 2018, at 4:46 AM, Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net<mailto:nanog at ics-il.net>> wrote:

heh, cross connects are indeed a major issue. I have a need for > 10G transport. My equipment supports 40G. The carriers aren't terribly interested in doing 40G transport (at least not at a reasonable price, one quote was over 4x a 10G). 100G-capable switches cost too much. Equinix charges as much for a pair of cross connects as a 10G wave. Carriers aren't likely to be interested in using bidi optics or passive WDM to overcome the ridiculous cross connect charges.

This all complicates how one chooses transport. There's no easy path forward.

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From: "Eric Dugas" <edugas at unknowndevice.ca<mailto:edugas at unknowndevice.ca>>
To: "Mehmet Akcin" <mehmet at akcin.net<mailto:mehmet at akcin.net>>
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Subject: Re: How to choose a transport(terrestrial/subsea)

I also look at hand-off locations (as long as it doesn't compromise the overall robustness of the design).

Most providers will be able to hand-off in the BMMR of a carrier hotel and some will have the flexibility to hand-off in particular suites within the same building or other locations near where the cross-connects fees are lower. I've seen cross-connect fees between $50 up to $750 MRC so if you need multiple wavelengths (for capacity), the cross-connect fees are going to make a huge difference on the total MRC.

Eric

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On Dec 14 2018, at 12:17 pm, Mehmet Akcin <mehmet at akcin.net<mailto:mehmet at akcin.net>> wrote:
Thank you everyone incredible amounts of responses for my how to choose a transit provider smail earlier.

How do you choose transport & backbone?

Looking at key aspects like route information, diversity, aerial vs under ground fiber, age of fiber, outage history, length, but what else?

I will get both transport and transit as two seperate blogs.

I will also submit as a nanog paper for the meeting after next, or maybe next? I am probably too late by now.

Thank you for all your help. I will add your names to the thank you line ;-)
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