Ouch. The operational cost of voip providers in Europe must be pretty high compared to ours.
Is it like that everywhere in Europe or just the UK? Chris Bagnall wrote: >> Well, that's not necessarily true. Yes, of course you're going to add >> some latency, but it doesn't have to be too much. It all depends on how >> the US data center is peered. If it's peered with primarily Tier 1 >> backbones that privately haul trans-Atlantic traffic and go back to >> LINX, Redbus, etc. in London, you're pretty well off. > > I was thinking specifically of the scenario where one might have PSTN > termination in the UK, customers in the UK, but phone servers in the US. > You'd have the latency of the customer's (usually *DSL) connection to the US, > then the (hopefully much lower) latency back to the PSTN provider in the UK. > I doubt you'd be able to do it under 100ms end-to-end. > > As you rightly point out, if you can sidestep handling media, the situation > would be much improved. > >> I believe we're paying around $5/amp here in the US. Which is not >> unreasonable I think. > > To give you an idea how different it is over here, Telehouse Europe charge > £32 + VAT per amp over the inclusive power allowance (for Telehouse East, > Docklands, anyway). I think most of that goes not on providing the extra > power - that's easy - but on the extra cooling the increased power > consumption requires. > > Regards, > > Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona > Register Now: http://www.astricon.net > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
