> On Sep 19, 2018, at 01:50 , Saku Ytti <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey, > >> In some DCs I've done mutual OOB swaps with other telcos in the same >> suite, this is usually cheap or free (excluding the one time xconnect > > We consciously decided to not ask or accept OOB swaps, because of fear > that they might be provisioned outside processes which might make it > impossible to repair them through normal commercial processes, which > would potentially cost lot of downtime and NOC's resources. > >> Sometimes the DC provider has an OOB connectivity service that uses >> separate transit providers than we use and this often cheap too. Again >> this is often bespoke per DC/colo provider though. > > MRC quotes I have 400USD Equinix, 288USD Terramark, 300USD Coresite. > Compared to PSTN which we see at 90-150USD. This makes me less > inclined to focus on HW CAPEX and optimise for HW/SW that tooling and > people already support.
Your PSTN figure doesn’t include the cost of the XC to bring that POTS line into your suite/cage/cabinet. Once you add that in, It looks to me like you probably exceeded the OOB service price in each of the cases quoted above. >> The most scalable solution I've been involved in so far is VDSL. Here >> in the UK lots of DCs are on-net for the national incumbent VDSL > > I think WAN indeed is very market situational, and if you need to > support world, it is beneficial to have solution which supports many > WAN options, without needing external boxes and external power bricks. > We try to do just ethernet, but even that is already being provided as > copper, fibre and in one market with PPPoE, all which are non-issues > by going with Cisco. I do wish I had second option, I do wish JNPR SRX > would support async serial ports. https://opengear.com/products/cm7100-console-server <https://opengear.com/products/cm7100-console-server> Has SFP network ports. Owen
