At the end of the day it’s a cost/benefit analysis, reading the OP’s message it’s clear that the IX or transit isn’t really the problem, but rather how much traffic traverses to the point of transit/IX. I think until we see some numbers both in terms of traffic and in terms of price to say Miami, Willemstad, etc. we can’t easily determine a good solution.
Regards, Marty Strong -------------------------------------- Cloudflare - AS13335 Network Engineer ma...@cloudflare.com +44 7584 906 055 smartflare (Skype) https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/13335 > On 12 Jan 2017, at 13:38, Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > > I remember there were a couple different owners down there, but Columbus > swallowed them up, then C&W got Columbus then Liberty got C&W. > > Not knowing the international cable market, is this like AT&T, Comcast or > Verizon (the largest US last mile operators) being your only option? > > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > > Midwest Internet Exchange > > The Brothers WISP > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Eric Kuhnke" <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> > To: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org> > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 3:23:58 PM > Subject: Re: Bandwidth Savings > > The challenges are almost certainly economics related, at the lack of > competition and high costs for layer 1/2 transport from his Caribbean > island to Miami. Via whatever submarine cables exist that are controlled by > larger ILEC type entities/telcos. Or satellite (whether geostationary > transponder capacity or o3b). > > Depending on what island we're talking about, the $$$$$/month for a single > 1GbE or 10GbE layer 2 transport service from $ISLAND to Miami will be very > high compared to what a network operator in the US 48 states is accustomed > to paying. > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Richard Hicks <richard.hi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> I don't know the the Caribbean Internet Exchanges market. Are any worth >> peering at versus buying additional L2 bandwidth to Miami? >> >> https://cw.ams-ix.net/ >> http://www.ocix.net/ocix/ >> >> Rick >> >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Keenan Singh <keenansi...@airlinktt.net> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Guys >>> >>> We are an ISP in the Caribbean, and are faced with extremely high >> Bandwidth >>> costs, compared to the US, we currently use Peer App for Caching however >>> with most services now moving to HTTPS the cache is proving to be less >> and >>> less effective. We are currently looking at any way we can save on >>> Bandwidth or to be more Efficient with the Bandwidth we currently have. >> We >>> do have a Layer 2 Circuit between the Island and Miami, I am seeing there >>> are WAN Accelerators where they would put a Server on either end and sort >>> of Compress and decompress the Traffic before it goes over the Layer 2, I >>> have never used this before, has any one here used anything like this, >> what >>> results would I be able to expect for ISP Traffic? >>> >>> If not any ideas on Bandwidth Savings, or being more Efficient with want >> we >>> currently. >>> >>> Many thanks for any Help >>> >>> Keenan >>> >> >
