The only problem I see with this is there is a slightly large hump for smaller ISP's to go over when they FIRST want to join and don't yet know the benefit...

Reid


On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Andrew Hoyos <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
On Jul 23, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Andrew Hoyos wrote:

>> Actually, I think he's advocating charging a 5k setup fee for each 10G
>> ports, not the current model of no charges ever.
>
>
> Correct - my two cents on why this model works better:
>
> a.) folks that are doing the traffic warranting hardware upgrades (ie: folks w/ 10G ports) are responsible for the cost (and they are deriving more benefit for their $).
> b.) non-recurring costs are a much easier sell to $MGMT (at least in my experience)
> c.) it keeps the entry cost into the IX low (xconnect + SFP) to encourage more participants.
>
> I guess this is all assuming that the MICE recurring expenses would either be mostly covered by monetary donations, or in-kind by providers of those services. Any $ coming in from port costs mostly gets used for hardware upgrades as needed + a reserve.

Also,

d.) keeps administrative burden low - no processing monthly invoices, payments, etc.

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