On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Gilbert Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Because trying to get through the sales drones at Verizon, AT&T, et al > is the suck I'm hoping that one of the LOPSA-ers out there has a > general ballpark figure for the cost of MPLS services per location > (and at what bandwidth) from a major carrier. I know that it can vary > greatly, but I'm hoping for a quicker and less painful answer here > than talking to a sales person who doesn't know what an SLA is.... >
Gil, I've got a global grid of about 20 MPLS connected offices with connections from Verizon, and a redundant set of MPLS circuits at my main offices from AT&T. All of these MPLS connections were installed within the last two years. In general the price is widely variant depending on the location, and whether or not you need Gold CAR (Voice quality) bandwidth. And depending on how many offices you're looking for circuits at and the length of contract you're willing to commit to you may be able to get significant discounts. What I can give you is some representative numbers from quotes from September of '08. For example: - In the US, I've got two offices with 30Mbps MPLS circuits. The bandwidth cost for the two offices is identical, but the access cost differs by $1K/month. One is delivered as a DS3, the other as Ethernet. The DS3 access cost is higher, but I don't know if thats because of technology or location. Interesting to note is that you gain some feature benefits on a DS3 delivery in terms of near real time bandwidth adjustments via VZB's web portal. After discount the two circuits run just a bit over $2K & $3K per month, before adding the cost of the Gold bandwidth. - Other offices in the US see costs of $600/mo for 1.5Mbps (delivered as T1), and $1600/mo for 6Mbps (4x T1 delivery). - Outside the US prices will be heavily dependent on the location. We pay about as much for 4Mbps in Dublin as for 30Mbps in the US. London is higher, Slovakia higher still. Frankfurt and Paris on the other hand are less expensive. China and India prices are sky high. If you'd like some more details, like more specific geographic details, feel free to contact me off list. And If you'd like to cut past the sales drones and get to someone who can get you real info I'd be happy to pass your contact information to our Verizon account rep. He might not be the rep for your area (depending on where you are), but he can get you assigned to the right person. We work with the same Account Rep, Sales Engineer and Implementation Engineer for all of our dealings with VZB, whether it be MPLS circuits, Internet circuits, voice PRIs, Cisco equipment purchases, etc... -David _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
