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Private IP Networking
February 7, 2000 |
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Private IP Services: A Cost Comparison For the sake of objective comparison, we asked vendors to price a five-site international network with locations in New York, Boston, London, Sydney and Tokyo. We requested that they include all monthly costs--not only their own access, traffic and CPE-related costs, but also any third-party local-loop charges that might apply.
We didn't receive pricing information from AT&T or PSINet, which is why these two companies got low scores for price on our report card (page 48). However, as you can see from the participating vendors, there is significant variation in total monthly cost as well as in the rates for different locations and circuit speeds. Of the three vendors able to offer international service (Qwest doesn't), Uunet has the most consistent pricing across international locations, as well as the lowest overall cost for our scenario. GTE's higher cost is explained in part by the fact that the company priced the scenario using higher-speed access lines than requested (a T1 in Boston and 128-Kbps with 64-Kbps CIR elsewhere).  
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