On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 23:46, Roy S. Rapoport wrote:
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:39:56PM -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:
- If a T1 costs US $700 a month, you'll be spending ~$525,000.00 a month (1160 / 1.544 * 700) retail just for the connectivity charges to meet your peak demand.
That's not a fair number -- scaling up to 1160Mbits doesn't mean you'll have 700 T1s (my God, imagine the number of routers you'd use -- one of the denser platforms I've seen is the Cisco 7206VXR, and even that would only do about 40 T1s). You'd go for something like OC-24 and load-balance it over two GigE links.
Sure. I was trying to drive home the scale of such an effort by ballparking the cost using numbers I know and I haven't shopped around for OC-24 links lately. ;-)
- The initial hardware investment (if you need it) will cost about US$3.5 million+ (1660 servers * 2100/apiece).
FWIW, that's not necessarily all that much (though you haven't factored in support costs and networking hardware costs). I've seen infrastructure builds at sites that featured SIGNIFICANTLY less traffic that cost that much.
Well, you heard him Wayne, don't consider my quote binding. ;-) - C