Better Bandwidth Prices

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swainx

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Does anyone know of a IP transit broker that can offer better pricing on bandwidth? We are running a BGP blend as well as MPLS in 2 locations in the USA.

I received an email from an old colleague and he referred me here http://www.giglinx.com/bandwidth-pricing.html

Just want to see if anyone else has suggestions. Contract aren't up until end of 2014; just doing some research at this point.
 
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The largest factor we have in pricing is who we can get the building lit by. You almost have to go dig up the street and figure out who has fiber close. Most times you have either verizon or ATT already have fiber into most buildings or it is at least out in the street. Unfortunately these will vendors tend to the be the most expensive but I would still recommend them highly if you are trying to go international and stay on a single carrier.

Att and Verizon will sell access to other providers but the pricing really depends on how much ability you realistically have to fiber pulled from another vendor into your building. Say you buy from sprint but sprint has to pay ATT for the local access. You will likely find a huge part of...
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bill001g

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The largest factor we have in pricing is who we can get the building lit by. You almost have to go dig up the street and figure out who has fiber close. Most times you have either verizon or ATT already have fiber into most buildings or it is at least out in the street. Unfortunately these will vendors tend to the be the most expensive but I would still recommend them highly if you are trying to go international and stay on a single carrier.

Att and Verizon will sell access to other providers but the pricing really depends on how much ability you realistically have to fiber pulled from another vendor into your building. Say you buy from sprint but sprint has to pay ATT for the local access. You will likely find a huge part of your charge is for the local access. It still could be a little cheaper than buying from ATT directly for unknown reasons.

Best case are when you can get direct connection to some of the smaller..but still large providers like XO Or Level3. Even time warner sells direct network access not related to their cable tv business.

Best bet is to walk around your buildings for a few blocks and look at the underground fiber notices and see who might be close. Some times you must dig though city records. You can also just call each provider and give them your addresses and they will tell you if they can at a reasonabe cost place you directly on their network.

Things like google fiber may force more of the providers to offer more reasonable pricing but it is going to be many years before google has enough deployed fiber to use it for private networks between cities.
 
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