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OVH in Europe has 1tbps in combined IP peering/transit. They are renting servers with 10gbps ports for about $200. Just yesterday they added 80gbps to Paris. ht

OVH in Europe has 1tbps in combined IP peering/transit. They are renting servers with 10gbps ports for about $200. Just yesterday they added 80gbps to Paris. http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showpost.php?p=41454&postcount=33 http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showpost.php?p=41454&postcount=33 Hope Sonic builds a powerful network.

obtu 15y ago
Huh, they're beating Proxad (French ISP Free / Iliad group) then: 470Gbps as of 2011-04-20: http://lafibre.info/free-les-news/carte-du-reseau-fibre-optique-free/ http://lafibre.info/free-les-news/carte-du-reseau-fibre-opti... .
- shimon_e 15y ago
  The collapse of Megavideo added attracted an additional 200 gbps to their network alone. OVH is expanding into Canada too. Makes me quiet scared. They are like the walmart of the data industry. Shame free's online.net is not competing outside of France.
kev009 15y ago
Read the small print. "Traffic is unlimited. If you exceed 40 TB / month, the connection will be limited to 10 Mbps." That works out to a bit over 100mbps commit. A fair enough deal but nothing spectacular. Doing 10gbps ports is a neat marketing trick but I can't think of too many situations where you'd balloon that large and yet still sit within 40TB/mo where a gigabit port would be a serious bottleneck. Just keep in mind the carriers are using at most 40gbit and 100gibt optical lines and trunking them together. If you wire an entire neighborhood with gigabit last mile, or a DC with 10gig to the node, it all coalesces somewhere at the network access points. For home subscribers, I'd much rather prefer a quality product in the 10s of mbit for the next few years, the only point I was originally trying to make. The argument for laying gigabit last mile has more to do with last mile life cycle IMHO than truly giving customers a full gigabit pipe at the moment.
- shimon_e 15y ago
  Then it is 0.89 per TB and that's for UK customers. French customers and customers who sign up through ovh.com get a completely different bandwidth structure. They get "unbilled" bandwidth but only get a few hundred mbps dedicated with each peer. Google it. It's due to competition from online.net in france. 10gbps makes sense if you also have 1gbps servers in their network. BTW Sonic.net is $70/m. The article was mistaken.

obtu 15y ago

Huh, they're beating Proxad (French ISP Free / Iliad group) then: 470Gbps as of 2011-04-20: http://lafibre.info/free-les-news/carte-du-reseau-fibre-optique-free/ http://lafibre.info/free-les-news/carte-du-reseau-fibre-opti... .

shimon_e 15y ago
The collapse of Megavideo added attracted an additional 200 gbps to their network alone. OVH is expanding into Canada too. Makes me quiet scared. They are like the walmart of the data industry. Shame free's online.net is not competing outside of France.

kev009 15y ago

Read the small print. "Traffic is unlimited. If you exceed 40 TB / month, the connection will be limited to 10 Mbps." That works out to a bit over 100mbps commit. A fair enough deal but nothing spectacular. Doing 10gbps ports is a neat marketing trick but I can't think of too many situations where you'd balloon that large and yet still sit within 40TB/mo where a gigabit port would be a serious bottleneck. Just keep in mind the carriers are using at most 40gbit and 100gibt optical lines and trunking them together. If you wire an entire neighborhood with gigabit last mile, or a DC with 10gig to the node, it all coalesces somewhere at the network access points. For home subscribers, I'd much rather prefer a quality product in the 10s of mbit for the next few years, the only point I was originally trying to make. The argument for laying gigabit last mile has more to do with last mile life cycle IMHO than truly giving customers a full gigabit pipe at the moment.

shimon_e 15y ago
Then it is 0.89 per TB and that's for UK customers. French customers and customers who sign up through ovh.com get a completely different bandwidth structure. They get "unbilled" bandwidth but only get a few hundred mbps dedicated with each peer. Google it. It's due to competition from online.net in france. 10gbps makes sense if you also have 1gbps servers in their network. BTW Sonic.net is $70/m. The article was mistaken.