Tuesday, March 17, 2009

TENET has new transit providers

The TENET traffic graphs show NTT as a new provider:

And a 10G interface, to boot! This is likely in preparation for the arrival of SEACOM, as TENET's international bandwidth is the current bottleneck.

Traffic on Datahop has been halved, and traffic on Telias is at a quarter to a third of normal rates. So they are either being phased out or being used as backup providers.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I assume that this means that TENET "long line" their IP transit requirements from London with a private leased line. What is the price locally for IP Transit? Is it still on the order of $2500/Mb? Will prices for transit from NEOTEL not be competitive with the do it yourself model once SEACOM comes online? Certainly with STM-1s coming down in price, we should be looking at $1000/Mb at the highest.

Will TENET fill the 10G requirement? or is much of the capacity idle?

Thanks, Robert

Al said...

One of TENET's aims with GEN3 was to have their own connection [L2 tunnel?] to e.g. London and buy cheap transit there, with the expectation that eventually they'd be able to buy a cheaper international pipe.

Once SEACOM comes online and starts selling to all interested parties, then Neotel's prices had better start going down.

I believe TENET will start pushing a high percentage of the 10G transit once SEACOM is up. Extrapolating from other figures I've seen, I would expect a constant minimum of 500-1000 Mbps. The 10G is chiefly for spikes (and GEANT / Internet2 experiments, I guess)