If you're an ISP and you can't afford even the highest price per IP on
that list, you have bigger problems than how much it costs to bring
Netflix traffic to your customers.
Matthew Kaufman
On 7/15/2014 7:58 AM, Brett Glass wrote:
Matt:
Here's the thing. With physical goods, there are economies of scale in
shipping and delivering them in bulk. But IP addresses are simply numbers!
Since there's already a base fee to cover the fixed costs, there's no
reason for the cost per IP to be different. And, in fact, good reason
for it not to be. Big carriers waste a lot of IPs compared to little
guys, who get disproportionate scrutiny.
--Brett Glass
At 12:24 AM 7/15/2014, Matt Palmer wrote:
While the "share of revenue" argument is bogus (as John's cup-of-coffee
analogy made clear), you do have a point with the cost-per-IP-address
argument:
Annual Fee Max CIDR $/IP
$500 /22 0.49
$1000 /20 0.24
$2000 /18 0.12
$4000 /16 0.06
$8000 /14 0.03
$16000 /12 0.02
$32000 > /12 Mastercard!
Then again, the vast majority of businesses have discounts for volume
purchases.
