On 7/21/10 12:22 PM, "Marco Hogewoning" <mar...@marcoh.net> wrote:
> > On 21 jul 2010, at 21:08, Zaid Ali wrote: > >> I currently have a v4 BGP session with AS 701 and recently requested a v6 >> BGP session to which I was told a tunnel session will be provided (Same >> circuit would be better but whatever!). Towards the final stage in >> discussions I was told that it will cost $1500. I find this quite ridiculous >> and it will certainly not motivate people to move to v6 if providers put a >> direct price tag on it. I am going through a bandwidth reseller though so I >> am not sure who is trying to jack me here. Has anyone here gone through a >> similar experience? > > I think the main question here would be, what they would charge for a change > to a v4 session. Most likely they just decided that setting up the tunnel and > configuring BGP takes time and since time is money they decided to charge for > you. Seems like a reasonabe rule of business, why should it be free ? At the > same time, the same set of economics will probably find you somebody who will > do this for less and maybe even is happy to take your business and setup v4/v6 > dual stack for free. > > So get a quote from a competitor, call back 701 and offer them the choice of > setting up the tunnel or loose a customer. My personal preference would be to > leave and find somebody who can do native all the way. > > MarcoH > Thanks, I am trying to see if there is a trend or anomalous gouging. From off-list answers it doesn't seem like a trend among other vendors. My worry about high costs is when you have several circuits this will add up and going to a CFO to justify will be pretty hard. A CFO will generally say lets deal with that problem next year when v4 actually runs out. Two years ago I felt there wasn't enough motivation for folks to move to v6, I don't see this changing especially when vendors, resellers etc charge more $$ for v6. Zaid
