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Re:Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer by pyre on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @06:42PM (#11301251)
> 700TB/mo is about 2Gbps - on the open market that should be under $1000/mo

Is that a fixed-cost sustained pipe though? I was under the impression that (at least at the backbone level) those contracts got more costly the closer to full that your pipe was.

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Re:Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer by virtuallynathan on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @06:46PM (#11301275)
Yes, $1000/mo would get you a 2Gbps commit on a 10Gbps pipe. If you used over 2Gbps (95%ile) for the month, you would pay probably $0.60/Mbps for that excess ($0.10 over the commit price). Some providers dont charge more than the commit price for overage traffic.
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