Billing Options
Equinix Internet Access offers three options for pricing and billing:
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Fixed bandwidth billing – A fixed monthly recurring charge. You can select the maximum bandwidth that you choose not to exceed.
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Usage-based billing – No traffic limitation is applied. Rate is limited by the port speed that is selected. You pay for the amount of data that has been sent out to the internet on a charge per gigabyte. A minimum monthly charge applies.
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Burst Billing – A monthly recurring charge, based on the selected bandwidth commitment and additional charges should your traffic exceed that level. Traffic can burst up to port speed. Overage charges are based on the 95th percentile of the traffic rate for that month.
Maximum Bandwidth Commitment
You can order Equinix Internet Access service by means of a maximum bandwidth commitment rate in units of megabits per second (Mbps).
Traffic is rate limited, using traffic policing, to the maximum bandwidth commitment selected. The up-link and down-link speeds are symmetrical.
Bandwidth commitment ranges are based on the port speed selected:
- 1G port – 10 Mbps to 1,000 Mbps
- 10G port – 10 Mbps to 10,000 Mbps (up to 100,000 Mbps with 10x10G LAG)
- 100G port – 10,000 Mbps to 100,000 Mbps (up to 400,000 Mbps with 4x100G LAG)
