Comment Bandwidth on Demand service offering - For Real! (Score 1) 202
I agree... Burstable pricing will kill you. think about it, 2.5 days of burst, can kill your 95%!!
You should also be wary of the quality of the bw you are getting. If its cheap, it most likely a very low quality provider. We had a contract with one "C" named provider for 1 year, and could not use it, because some of our customers are VOIP providers, and the latency would spike @ 10Mb.
I work for a small software company, and all we are about it Bandwidth pricing and trading. We liscecne our market technology to other large Carriers, as well as run our colo business, that utilizes our own technology, to maximize customers needs.
Invisible Hand Networks (IHN), developed an IP pricing and provisioning platform called Merkato, at Columbia University. Currently, we operate and participate in multiple global markets. We also operate a service business, (Invisible Hand Services, formerly StreamingHand) based on this technology, that provides "on demand" IP capacity for content delivery purposes. The service allows our customers to purchase bandwidth as needed in as little as five minute increments or as long as they need. These customers simply configure an intelligent software "agent" which then purchases bandwidth on the customer's behalf in response to real-time traffic monitoring for real demand.
Because of the efficiencies realized under this model, cost savings for the customer are significant. For instance, the price per Mbps of bandwidth has averaged approximately $125.00 per Mbps per Month in recent months. And because it is purchased in 5 minute increments it mimics a megabyte delivered model where the customer is only really paying for what they need.
For Example: a customer hosting a game demo or streaming media file would configure the agent to respond to demand for these objects. If the traffic were to pick up to 70 Mbps for 2 hours they would pay $23.52 ($125.00*70Mbps/31days/24hours *2 hours)).
Because of the "Free Market" nature of our technology, we do not utilize term contracts or monthly cost minimums. In short, if you don't use the bandwidth, then you don't pay anything.
Customers in your line of business, usually start out by hosting your burstable traffic with us and allowing the system to buy your optimal bandwidth corresponding to your demand, not your contract.
If you want to pay for only what you use, then check us out: www.invisiblehand.net or you contact us at sales@invisiblehand.net Good luck..
You should also be wary of the quality of the bw you are getting. If its cheap, it most likely a very low quality provider. We had a contract with one "C" named provider for 1 year, and could not use it, because some of our customers are VOIP providers, and the latency would spike @ 10Mb.
I work for a small software company, and all we are about it Bandwidth pricing and trading. We liscecne our market technology to other large Carriers, as well as run our colo business, that utilizes our own technology, to maximize customers needs.
Invisible Hand Networks (IHN), developed an IP pricing and provisioning platform called Merkato, at Columbia University. Currently, we operate and participate in multiple global markets. We also operate a service business, (Invisible Hand Services, formerly StreamingHand) based on this technology, that provides "on demand" IP capacity for content delivery purposes. The service allows our customers to purchase bandwidth as needed in as little as five minute increments or as long as they need. These customers simply configure an intelligent software "agent" which then purchases bandwidth on the customer's behalf in response to real-time traffic monitoring for real demand.
Because of the efficiencies realized under this model, cost savings for the customer are significant. For instance, the price per Mbps of bandwidth has averaged approximately $125.00 per Mbps per Month in recent months. And because it is purchased in 5 minute increments it mimics a megabyte delivered model where the customer is only really paying for what they need.
For Example: a customer hosting a game demo or streaming media file would configure the agent to respond to demand for these objects. If the traffic were to pick up to 70 Mbps for 2 hours they would pay $23.52 ($125.00*70Mbps/31days/24hours *2 hours)).
Because of the "Free Market" nature of our technology, we do not utilize term contracts or monthly cost minimums. In short, if you don't use the bandwidth, then you don't pay anything.
Customers in your line of business, usually start out by hosting your burstable traffic with us and allowing the system to buy your optimal bandwidth corresponding to your demand, not your contract.
If you want to pay for only what you use, then check us out: www.invisiblehand.net or you contact us at sales@invisiblehand.net Good luck..
