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Transit prices are generally not published, are negotiated individually, and often include a confidentiality clause. Plus, for a company like CloudFlare with a
by rdl 12y ago
Transit prices are generally not published, are negotiated individually, and often include a confidentiality clause. Plus, for a company like CloudFlare with a blended mix of transit providers, it won't be a single price.
(It's also likely CloudFlare buys more transit than most individual sites, so CF pricing wouldn't be meaningful for smaller circuits.)
Transit also varies by factors other than price. Cogent publishes prices, so for Cogent transit, it's pretty much a known quantity.
- wmf 12y agoThere's plenty of published information that CloudFlare could have referenced without breaking confidentiality, and all of it seems to be a full order of magnitude less than the "example" number they give. http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2014/02/transit-works-costs-important.html http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2014/02/transit-works-costs-i... http://www.telegeography.com/press/press-releases/2013/10/08/ip-transit-port-upgrades-yield-steeper-price-declines-for-buyers/index.html http://www.telegeography.com/press/press-releases/2013/10/08... http://drpeering.net/AskDrPeering/blog/articles/Ask_DrPeering/Entries/2013/10/25_2014_Transit_Prices_and_Peering_Projections.html http://drpeering.net/AskDrPeering/blog/articles/Ask_DrPeerin...
- rdl 12y agoI also think it's a little crazy we talk about 1Mbps bandwidth now; I'd probably just start thinking of pricing as "$10k per Gbps" or something. (Usually big/cheap pipes include a commit level, too, and of course a max port size, so you're usually talking about 100+Mbps on a gig port minimum for "real" prices, or 1Gbps on a 10GE port.)