[Asterisk-biz] Colocation

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Rusty Shackleford wrote:

> I doubt that anyone can. Yes, yes, you will get lots of quotes from this
> or that colo provider touting multi-megabit per second bandwidth. And
> while it's true that the pipe they sell you might be that big
> _most_of_the_time_, it is the same shared bandwidth they sell to service
> web and email hosting clients. We assume you are doing VOIP, which is
> far less tolerant of certain network conditions that have virtually no
> effect on email and web services. Rack space and dedicated 1 mbps, ALL
> THE WAY to the backbone connection, won't come for $50 per month.
Define "backbone connection".

Hint: If you are doing Voice over Public Intarweb, you are taking chances,
no matter who you are buying from. 

Thus, serious people have their own transport connections to their
customers *and* vendors with guaranteed quality of service. This is why we
have presence in most NYC carrier hotels and can hit any other carrier
hotel in the nation at a reasonable cost. 

-alex