On 12/27/24 09:21, Mike Hammett wrote:
It seems like the bulk of the responses are assuming a point-to-point service. What about aggregation of smaller services? I don't necessarily mean aggregation of hundreds of sub 1 gig circuits, but when you need more than 10 gig, your next step is needing a hundred, even if it's far away. You can only fit so many SLAed multi-gig services on a 10 gig port. This becomes a big deal when cross connects are as expensive as they are
That is logical, yes. My experience has been the backhaul provider either does not have a 100G NNI product, or will require your kidney for them to deploy one. This is, of course, before they look at what their network will require to support that kind of transport, if you grow.
I have also found that internal product and business development teams are happy to have a 100G NNI with a backhaul provider, but they assume the cost of a 100G port is the same as that of a 10G port. When they realize it's not, their business case falls apart.
So not unheard of, sure... but a few more bits that need to be ironed out, I've found, both internally and with your backhaul provider.
Mark.
