club977
December 10th, 2005, 18:06
We've been shopping around for bandwidth for quite some time now and getting quotes from third party resellers and the like but I thought it might not be a bad idea to try and post here and see what happens. We're very close on a couple of deals but wanted to try here just to see what else is out there.
We are one of the largest independatly owned media broadcasting companies in the world and are looking for quotes on bandwidth and servers to stream our radio stations out over the World Wide Web. Here's what we are looking for:
Three (3) Gbps of Bandwidth which will be bought immediately but would need to expand as necessary. You would be responsible for contacting us if we started to get close to maxing that out and we'd have the option to buy more at that time at the same price as originally quoted.
Prefered Cisco switching that would allow a sustained transfer of 10 Gbps if needed. You would need to provide a way for us to monitor the switch thru mrtg or a similar program. We'd like to be able to see sustained transfers, packetloss, etc.
Other Hardware would include:
Three (3) Dual P4 procs (Xeon) / 2 gig of Ram / Size of hard drive is unimportant / at least 1 top quality (3com/Cisco, Intel) Gigabit NIC/Linux or some form of linux running on them. Probably Debian or FreeBSB.
Three (3) Dual p4 procs (Xeon) / 2 gig of Ram/Size of hard drive unimportant / at least 1 top quality (3com/Cisco?Intel) Gigabit NIC / Windows 2003 Server Installed.
Would like have the ability to do colocation in your datacenter down the road as we may want to co-locate our physical music servers we currently own next to the other servers you would provide if this network proves reliable and we are satisfied with service (probably wouldn't happen for at least 1-4 month though). What is the price per U for something like this if it's available. We'd colocate 6 servers with a combined rack unit of 10U. This is in addition to the other servers we'd lease from you.
What is the SLA if any? We would prefer a formal written agreement signed and dated by both parties including what you'd provide us and what it would cost us per month including uptime guarantees, packetloss guarantees and ping time guarantees.
What kind of tech support could you offer us? Is there's a direct number to the NOC if there's a problem, etc.
How long would you require the contract to be?
We want require regular monthly invoices sent to us for the upcoming month (we pay in advance) and a company check would be cut in a timely matter. Is this acceptable?
We are looking at launching this project close to the first to the middle of January. Is this an acceptable time frame and could you deploy a project this big in that period of time?
Are you willing to give us a 30-60 day guarantee that states that if for any reason we are not satisified with the level of service, we may cancel the contract at any time without penalty of any kind?
Please feel free to contact me off list at jeff@club977.com with your price quotes. We can sign an NDA if need be to get your pricing.
Thanks,
Jeff Bachmeier
President / Club 977, Inc.
We are one of the largest independatly owned media broadcasting companies in the world and are looking for quotes on bandwidth and servers to stream our radio stations out over the World Wide Web. Here's what we are looking for:
Three (3) Gbps of Bandwidth which will be bought immediately but would need to expand as necessary. You would be responsible for contacting us if we started to get close to maxing that out and we'd have the option to buy more at that time at the same price as originally quoted.
Prefered Cisco switching that would allow a sustained transfer of 10 Gbps if needed. You would need to provide a way for us to monitor the switch thru mrtg or a similar program. We'd like to be able to see sustained transfers, packetloss, etc.
Other Hardware would include:
Three (3) Dual P4 procs (Xeon) / 2 gig of Ram / Size of hard drive is unimportant / at least 1 top quality (3com/Cisco, Intel) Gigabit NIC/Linux or some form of linux running on them. Probably Debian or FreeBSB.
Three (3) Dual p4 procs (Xeon) / 2 gig of Ram/Size of hard drive unimportant / at least 1 top quality (3com/Cisco?Intel) Gigabit NIC / Windows 2003 Server Installed.
Would like have the ability to do colocation in your datacenter down the road as we may want to co-locate our physical music servers we currently own next to the other servers you would provide if this network proves reliable and we are satisfied with service (probably wouldn't happen for at least 1-4 month though). What is the price per U for something like this if it's available. We'd colocate 6 servers with a combined rack unit of 10U. This is in addition to the other servers we'd lease from you.
What is the SLA if any? We would prefer a formal written agreement signed and dated by both parties including what you'd provide us and what it would cost us per month including uptime guarantees, packetloss guarantees and ping time guarantees.
What kind of tech support could you offer us? Is there's a direct number to the NOC if there's a problem, etc.
How long would you require the contract to be?
We want require regular monthly invoices sent to us for the upcoming month (we pay in advance) and a company check would be cut in a timely matter. Is this acceptable?
We are looking at launching this project close to the first to the middle of January. Is this an acceptable time frame and could you deploy a project this big in that period of time?
Are you willing to give us a 30-60 day guarantee that states that if for any reason we are not satisified with the level of service, we may cancel the contract at any time without penalty of any kind?
Please feel free to contact me off list at jeff@club977.com with your price quotes. We can sign an NDA if need be to get your pricing.
Thanks,
Jeff Bachmeier
President / Club 977, Inc.