Comcast made a splash last year in the wholesale world. First, they placed the biggest order of Cisco CRS-1s. Then they interconnected every city they are in with OC256 links over their own fiber. Then they started peering and worked a deal with Equnix direct to sell wholesale transit. They only sell full commit GigE and 10GigE ports, but the price is right and the performance is awesome. This is what happens when a company builds a modern network without legacy concerns AND has a lot of money.
BTW, you might have missed that Comcast is actually a pretty major content company. They own E!, Style, Golf Channel, G4, various sports channels, the 76ers, the flyers, and several other content producers I can't think of. While those properties may be content in the traditional sense as opposed to the web sense; Comcast is a big enough deal to leverage this situation as they enter new markets such as wholesale internet. -Matt > Well, Comcast typically does not provide their own transit, they buy > transit > from others. There are reasons for that, for example because they may buy > effectively since they do mostly download and provide little content, or > to > stay focused on their core competency which is not transit. That does not > mean they couldn't or don't have a model to sell transport. For example, > Cox > sells wholesale transport bandwidth. But there is little motive for them > to > give you a good price, when you are in competition to them. I'd argue > anywhere you'd want to pick up a connection from them, where they'd sell > it > to you, you'd probably have options from other companies for a better > price. > But not my place to speak for them. > > Tom DeReggi > RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc > IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "grant" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 9:46 AM > Subject: [WISPA] Comcast Bandwidth > > >> Does anyone have any contacts/experience for buying wholesale bandwidth >> from >> Comcast? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Grant >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
