Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Rough costing for 10Gb L2 / dark fiber

My org presently has a 1Gb metro ethernet circuit from Spectrum between our office and our colo.

We're looking at upgrading the bandwidth of that connection from 1Gb to 10Gb.

Spectrum has given us a quote, but it's more than we can afford.

Crown Castle has fiber about 100' from our building, and is already on net in our DC so I'm going to solicit a quote from them as well.

I'm wondering if there's any cost benefit of ordering bare / dark fiber vs a service like metro ethernet, if that's even possible.

The two locations are about 50 miles apart in Central Florida.

Questions:

  • Any idea on what ballpark I should expect for pricing?
  • Is there any benefit to ordering dark fiber vs metro ethernet?


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