The issue in Houston is Dallas. I reached out to 30-40 networks and 90% of them all said they just back haul to Dallas and have no interest in peering in Houston. It’s a real hard town to get any traction in. If you’re local and have some insight, I’d be super happy to talk to you.
Aaron > On Oct 14, 2023, at 8:48 PM, Tim Burke <t...@mid.net> wrote: > > I would say that a 1Gbit IP transit in a carrier neutral DC can be had for a > good bit less than $900 on the wholesale market. > > Sadly, IXP’s are seemingly turning into a pay to play game, with rates almost > costing as much as transit in many cases after you factor in loop costs. > > For example, in the Houston market (one of the largest and fastest growing > regions in the US!), we do not have a major IX, so to get up to Dallas it’s > several thousand for a 100g wave, plus several thousand for a 100g port on > one of those major IXes. Or, a better option, we can get a 100g flat internet > transit for just a little bit more. > > Fortunately, for us as an eyeball network, there are a good number of major > content networks that are allowing for private peering in markets like > Houston for just the cost of a cross connect and a QSFP if you’re in the > right DC, with Google and some others being the outliers. > > So for now, we'll keep paying for transit to get to the others (since it’s > about as much as transporting IXP from Dallas), and hoping someone at Google > finally sees Houston as more than a third rate city hanging off of Dallas. > Or… someone finally brings a worthwhile IX to Houston that gets us more than > peering to Kansas City. Yeah, I think the former is more likely. 😊 > > See y’all in San Diego this week, > Tim > >> On Oct 14, 2023, at 18:04, Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> This set of trendlines was very interesting. Unfortunately the data >> stops in 2015. Does anyone have more recent data? >> >> https://drpeering.net/white-papers/Internet-Transit-Pricing-Historical-And-Projected.php >> >> I believe a gbit circuit that an ISP can resell still runs at about >> $900 - $1.4k (?) in the usa? How about elsewhere? >> >> ... >> >> I am under the impression that many IXPs remain very successful, >> states without them suffer, and I also find the concept of doing micro >> IXPs at the city level, appealing, and now achievable with cheap gear. >> Finer grained cross connects between telco and ISP and IXP would lower >> latencies across town quite hugely... >> >> PS I hear ARIN is planning on dropping the price for, and bundling 3 >> BGP AS numbers at a time, as of the end of this year, also. >> >> >> >> -- >> Oct 30: https://netdevconf.info/0x17/news/the-maestro-and-the-music-bof.html >> Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos
