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Interesting paper on the falling pricing of transit (2010) : http://drpeering.net/white-papers/Internet-Transit-Pricing-Historical-And-Projected.php http://drpe
by mgbmtl 10y ago
Interesting paper on the falling pricing of transit (2010) :
http://drpeering.net/white-papers/Internet-Transit-Pricing-Historical-And-Projected.php http://drpeering.net/white-papers/Internet-Transit-Pricing-H...
On the other hand, I understand transit is a commodity, but not sure I want to see what happens when a "too big to fail" company goes under, in countries that have heavily-privatized backbones.
- dsr_ 10y agoFiber links are valuable long-term assets, and remaining competitors will generally be happy to buy them from a distressed company.
- neurotixz 10y agoHappened here in Canada with Teleglobe. All their assets (mainly buried fiber links) were purchased for cheap by Tata Communication, which has been growing since.
- nwrk 10y agoThe paper is totally opposite (but make sense to me with increasing fiber deployed) what Cloudflare is saying[1] and the reason for removing PoPs from their free and pro plans [1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-costs-around-the-world/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-costs-around-the-world...