On 10/2/23 22:59, Matthew Petach wrote:
Huh?
In all my decades of time in the network industry, I have never seen a
case where a smaller transit contract had lower per mbit cost than a
larger volume contract.
I would expect that HE would make *more* money off 10 smaller customer
transit contracts than one big tier 3 wholesaler transit contract.
That's my point.
Smaller ISP's will get better per-Mbps rates from their direct upstreams
than they would from HE/Cogent. The rates they'd get from HE/Cogent
would be to HE's/Cogen's favour, and not to the ISP's favour.
So if the goal is transit-free glory vanity, HE/Cogent would have to
take a bit of a haircut which they "could" make up in contract length.
Just another way to skin the cat.
Mark.
