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On 12/01/2016 10:19 AM, Steve Howard wrote: > I'd like to see every member get the first year (or fraction of year > depending upon when they start service) free. This gives everybody a > chance to try it and see if it makes sense for them. Does this matter in practice? If they're committing to $200/month for 36 months with Cologix for the cross-connect, a few months of free 10G port fee is a drop in the bucket. And in Jay's proposal, they could simply start at 1G. If that fills, the exchange has obvious value and they can immediately upgrade to 10G. In your proposal, the 1G is similarly practically free, even though it isn't literally free. > For example: > $35/Gbps/year for everybody. First year (or fraction thereof free). > > 1Gbps=$35/Year > 10Gbps=$350/Year > 100Gbps=$3,500/Year From my experience, very few costs in the telecom world scale linearly with bandwidth. That is, a 10x increase in bandwidth is usually not 10x the cost. -- Richard