> Equinix were a leader in bringing this to the UK, they have said they > want to get the UK charges to US levels (so >10x increase still to > come). US pricing already matches metro waves so we face paying > twice the cost of the wave to the DCs for the short interconnects. Our Internap (reselling Equinix) xconnects at Equinix in Ashburn recently jumped from $250 MRC to $350 overnight. According to the Equinix account manager, their "standard" increase is only 5% p.a. In my experience, US facility MRC's are (generally) always x times more expensive than European equivalent, if there is even an MRC although maybe that is changing as others have mentioned. I guess you could also draw somewhat similar comparisons with IX business models between the US and Europe (commercial vs mutual).
> They started charging but I can't attribute >the growing empty rack space to that, more likely AWS is the cause of >that and a driver for increasing xcon fees to make up revenue. > > brandon Agreed. This is a topic worthy of discussion all on its own! Wonder how much of colo/DC operator space and revenue public cloud is eating in 2018? Regards, Andrew.
