bandwidth price 

find best price per mb/s
find best service provider

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Request for Question Clarification by haversian-ga on 27 Oct 2002 08:52 PST

Where?  How much bandwidth?  One line, or multiple redundant?

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Clarification of Question by juri09-ga on 27 Oct 2002 09:58 PST

dual OC-1 usage

That would have to be Cogent:

http://www.cogentco.com

They provide 100 non-oversubscribed Mbps for an astonishingly low
$1,000 per month. This is very close in bandwidth to the dual OC-1s
you mention. I was shocked myself upon learning this, and it appears
to be real. Indeed, I've been told that Cogent is "really shaking
things up."

Service is available in 20 major metropolitan areas across the US.
Even if you're significantly outside one of these areas, it can be
cost effective to run an OC-3 to a Cogent-serviced city.

Stanford University (where I'm located), recently changed their
backbone provider from Genuity to Cogent, and if anything, I'd say the
speed and reliability of the service is better. (Though this may have
been because they were pushing the limits on their old 45Mbps link.)

Since these rates are not usually advertised (since they are so high
and fluctauate given different locations of installation), your best
bet is to contact several service providers and ask for their rates.
If you want a GA researcher to answer this question, at the very least
they will need to know where you are located. An answer such as
"downtown of city xyz" or "zip code xxxxx" is probably enough to get
you a ball park estimate of cost.

Without at least this much information, the best anyone will be able
to get you is an estimate of the range of prices you might see accross
the country, and these prices vary dramatically. For instance, 1.5
megabits (a t1) in alaska costs about $3500 a month from the best
service provider I could find, whereas it is pretty standard for this
service to cost less than $1000 per month in most places in the lower
48.