Point to Point Fibre

brainchylde · 6 Feb 2013 at 08:56

We are looking to get some point to point connectivity put in place (100Mbit or 1Gig depending on cost).

I've got some initial indication of cost from BT - can anyone recommend alternative suppliers I can offer the opportunity to? Radial distance of approx 5 miles, A and B ends at different exchanges.

Thanks.

img · 6 Feb 2013 at 09:21

Kingston? Cable and wireless?

bad_ass_neil · 6 Feb 2013 at 09:24

we use a company called Convergence http://www.convergencegroup.co.uk/
we have point to point links with them as well.

GhostlyPea · 6 Feb 2013 at 09:50

Have a look at Geo. We have a 10Gb ring with them around the M25 and it's solid

- GP

iaind · 6 Feb 2013 at 10:17

img said:
Kingston? Cable and wireless?

Another vote for Kingston - Well, KCom now

It entirely depends who you're "on-net" with - the cheapest way will be to find a supplier that's on-net at both ends. Companies can rent the tails from other providers so it's not essential but it does get more expensive that way

brainchylde · 6 Feb 2013 at 12:32

Thanks all - I got a price from Eclipse who are part of KCom. I'll give Geo and convergence a ring when I get a moment.

From experience does there tend to be a large difference in pricing between suppliers? I'm only looking for ballpark figures at the moment - we're planning for a merger.

iaind · 6 Feb 2013 at 12:41

Dont go with eclipse - different support arrangement, much more domestic focussed. Go with KCom direct and you go through thier NOC

brainchylde · 6 Feb 2013 at 20:40

Thanks for the heads up. Much appreciated.

Mr.Stu · 6 Feb 2013 at 20:51

Whats your location?

kefkef · 6 Feb 2013 at 23:07

Virgin Media Business is another one. We've moved away from point to point to MPLS, so 1gb costs around £8k for the total circuit rather than the tens of thousands it did for p2p.

brainchylde · 7 Feb 2013 at 22:04

Mr.Stu said:
Whats your location?

South Wales.

kefkef said:
Virgin Media Business is another one. We've moved away from point to point to MPLS, so 1gb costs around £8k for the total circuit rather than the tens of thousands it did for p2p.

Interesting - can I do layer 3 over that? Interestingly, the p2p doesn't cost much more than you're pointing out as the distance is not all that great really.

Vtec9k · 9 Feb 2013 at 09:55

We're planning to move off our exisitng MPLS to Virgin eVPN (MPLS basically). It's layer 2 "wires only" but that allows us to do our own layer 3 eigrp/dscp stuff on top.

In addition they are providing a 1Gb p2p link between Aberdeen and London for us - i can't remember the exact costs for that part but it was cheap enough.

mejinks · 11 Feb 2013 at 11:13

brainchylde said:
South Wales.

Interesting - can I do layer 3 over that? Interestingly, the p2p doesn't cost much more than you're pointing out as the distance is not all that great really.

It might be worth giving Glamorgan Telecom a bell. For a 10/100 they came out literally half the price of Virgin and BT for us.

morfmedia · 13 Feb 2013 at 19:31

COLT and Abovenet I've used, good service.