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There is no reason why a SMALL fee cannot be charged by the exchange to recover costs. This is not a for-profit enterprise, but I am sure $100-200 for the traffic most are getting beats anyones transit costs... Reid On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Jay Hanke <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Owen DeLong <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> For MICE to be viable as an exchange long term, connections to MICE need >> to cover upgrades like this as well as maintenance, etc. >> > > Agreed > > >> It's great that people are willing to donate hardware/money, but, I would >> like to see MICE develop a longer-term view of its own financial support >> where all members pay a fair share and we should be building up a reserve >> that can initially purchase any needed hardware that MICE doesn't own and >> later can provide for unforseen events. >> > > I have proposed to a number of members charging monthly or annually for > 10G connections. The idea being that if you really need XE you're getting > quite a bit of value from the exchange. > > I posted a poll on the linked in page and was rather taken back that ~30% > felt there was no $ value in 10G ports. On the flip side, 70% thought a > MICE 10G port was worth at least $150/month. > > Here's a link: > > > http://www.linkedin.com/groups/How-much-is-MICE-10G-3000346.S.91293159?qid=528878c8-eb0a-4f03-acc9-cf525202f635&trk=group_most_recent_rich-0-b-ttl&goback=%2Egmr_3000346 > > The last part of your statement is also very important. Being able to > address things for we have failed to plan without affecting the service the > exchange provides is critical to our ongoing usefulness. > > My back of the napkin, assuming we're paying for everything, puts us at an > annual recurring need of about 15k. This doesn't include purchase of the > initial switch and initial end-user ARIN address fees. > > Jay > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the MICE-DISCUSS list, click the following link: > http://lists.iphouse.net/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=MICE-DISCUSS&A=1 > -- Reid Fishler Director Hurricane Electric +1-510-580-4178 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the MICE-DISCUSS list, click the following link: http://lists.iphouse.net/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=MICE-DISCUSS&A=1