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Hsuan-Yeh Chang <hsuanyeh at gmail.com> asked: > Can anyone recommend an ISP (optical fiber) for 1-10 Gbps > capability, particularly servicing small businesses in the > Boston metro area? Cogent (www.cogentco.com) and XO (www.xo.com) were the two I used most recently, serving sites in Kendall Square and Waltham. XO is better, Cogent is cheaper. Any of the big national providers (search on "Internet Traffic Report") with a presence in the Boston area are able and willing to provide service, if you're in an urban-core location and willing to put up with weeks of phone calls from hungry sales-critters. If you need to serve that much bandwidth, though, it's usually (much) less expensive to locate the equipment in an established carrier-hotel data center than at a "small business in the Boston metro area". The local-loop and installation charges to bring fiber out to a yet-to-be-served location can be substantial. > If you can tell the price range, it is very much appreciated. Thanks > in advance! 100-megabit service was in the $500-700/mo range circa 2009, probably not a lot different today. GigE and above are by custom price quote. -rich
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