Only a few of the world’s largest internet backbone providers get transit-free status, exchanging all of their traffic with other backbone providers via peering.
Alas, downstream internet service providers (ISPs), content providers, and other internet operators must purchase at least some upstream “transit” in order to connect their internal networks to the internet at large.
IP transit prices vary across the globe, but they have one thing in common. They all decline.
In the last three years, some of the highest rates of price erosion occurred in markets with the greatest competition and the largest amount of international internet traffic exchange—namely, global hubs.
Today we're exploring some of the most notable examples of this.
10G wavelength pricing is declining. So is 100G—faster, even, than 10G.
At PTC 2019 Senior Analyst Mike Bisaha illustrated the extent to which prices are dropping on core routes using a series of images representing the last three years of price movement.
This year we've traveled from Bangkok to London, from Cape Town to Los Angeles. We've used these opportunities to continue our research and present our findings around the world.
As 2018 winds down, we've compiled the slide decks, interviews, and videos from a year of telecom travels. When viewed together, these presentations create a snapshot of the year in communication.
Earlier this year Senior Analyst Patrick Christian shared his knowledge of bandwidth and pricing trends with the African Peering & Interconnection Forum.
Patrick's analysis took the audience through the latest happenings in international bandwidth, namely continued growth in Africa and changes within the region.
Keep scrolling to watch the full presentation and download Patrick's slides.
To all of our readers in and around Florida: this is a friendly reminder that Subsea Americas 2018 will be here before you know it.
As always, you can bet on two days of conversation about the Americas' submarine cable market. The agenda covers strategic and technical insights that span across financing, construction, maintenance, and cable upgrades.
It's happening December 3-4 at the Westin Fort Lauderdale.
IP transit prices continued to decline steadily in 2018.
The FCC’s overturn of net neutrality rules once again made headlines, as a recent bill to save neutrality standards fell 46 votes short in the House.
But this isn't the only standard that the FCC has successfully shifted as of late.
Last year incumbent local carriers and cable providers scored a different major win that flew well under the radar.
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