Back to bandwidth. According to Pak Meneer, the condition is as follows:
- Jakarta - Singapore connection costs around USD 150 th./month (STM-1 closed circuit, clear channel); or
- Jakarta - Singapore connection costs USD 1.5 mn/10 years (STM-1 closed circuit, clear channel, IRU scheme)
- IP transit in SG costs around USD 60 - 100 /Mbps/month
This is more-or-less justified by several recent media reports (quoted information given by Indosat/Fadzri Santosa, APJII/Sylvia or others) which give the figure of around USD 1,000 /Mbps/month. Sylvia and Fadzri might talk on different contexts e.g. Fadzri mentioned closed-circuit leasing bandwidth and Sylvia talked about IP transit. But nevertheless, if we look at the numbers given by Meneer Tutut, cost component for transit doesn't contribute significantly. If Indosat plays in this price level, then I guess, Matrix and Moratel/XL would offer a bit cheaper price.
Regarding IRU scheme, I know that Matrix offers this scheme. But I doubt that Indosat does (will do)?? So, the information above may specific to Matrix. Right pak ?? :-D Some friends of mine have told me that Matrix has done a very good "marketing move". They may soon increase their currently-almost-full-booked 60 Gbps capacity. :-D However this might a spoiler, not official!
Last issue, many people use USD/Mbps metric for bandwidth price. I would personally prefer USD/X-port metric e.g. USD 2,000/E1-port rather than USD 1,000/Mbps. Why? Simply, because not all line bandwidth are useable for user data. If we are talking about STM-1 line for instance, if it is channelized, its useable bandwidth is only 126 Mbps. If it is unchannelized, by using PoS for instance, its useable bandwidth might be in the range of 130 - 140+ Mbps.
That's all. Sorry this time without pics. :-D
2 comments:
yes, I heard Matrix have 2 options for pricing, IRU based or yearly based. My raw calculation was using both options from Matrix. Although I don't know the real price, the price just rumours between ISP engineers. And I heard that the price per meg in cyber building starting around usd 1,000 per month from a NAP to an ISP right now. Need to double check it.
Some ISPs bought some STM-1 capacity to Matrix based on IRU scheme, they hope that they can sell bandwidth more cheaper and get more customer. Or they can spare another 1xSTM-1 for IPLC service, like connecting to add drop multiplexer, split become DS3 (45M) or nxE1, or nx64K and then customer can choose their own IP upstream at Equinix Singapore. Opportunity (Peluang) dan Threat (Ancaman) ?
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