IP Transit & Transport

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NCTC’s Transit and Transport programs have already helped members save thousands of dollars on carrier transit and transport costs.

Most members are experiencing 40%-60% growth per year in broadband traffic. While rates have decreased, many members still pay much more than larger companies.

NCTC negotiates agreements with well-established national and regional carriers to provide our members with the following benefits:

  • Better rates.
  • Defined service-level commitments.
  • Circuit protection/redundancy options.
  • Managed renewals and bid requests for larger-volume circuit needs.

CDN

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Through NCTC’s joint initiative with Qwilt, our members can upgrade their broadband networks with Qwilt’s CDN technology and services based on the Open Caching standard. NCTC and Qwilt are offering this CDN upgrade to qualifying NCTC members. The upgrade includes Qwilt-provided CDN hardware installed in NCTC member networks and Qwilt software and cloud services. Major content providers have already expressed their support for Open Caching as an attractive model for content delivery and a solution to meet content delivery requirements in NCTC member networks.

  • More Capacity: Qwilt offers more delivery capacity through our partnership with NCTC and its members.
  • Superior Quality: Lower latency, higher quality delivery of video streams to consumer. Measurabley better performance than traditional CDNs.
  • Better Economics: Qwilt partners directly with NCTC to embed and operate delivery infastructure and share revenue.

Colocation Solutions

Colocation

Colocation Solutions are available through NCTC, both at Internet Exchanges as well as more remote locations within your fiber footprint.  Colocation allows operators to locate equipment in a secure, hardened facility to help meet a variety of needs. NCTC offers cost effective discounts for colocations as well as the following benefits:

Colocation at an Internet Exchange:

  • By-pass the public internet to offer faster, private connections to specific providers such as Azure, Amazon, Google, Oracle and others.
  • Cost-effective way to optimize backhaul compared to multiple high-capacity circuits.
  • Remote monitoring and management of equipment.
  • Custom routing of traffic to meet the compliance, regulatory or privacy needs of your subscriber’s information.

Colocation at the “Edge” (in footprint):

  • Provide easy access to middle and long haul fiber connectivity for upstream capacity.
  • Lease only the rack space needed in a hardened, secure building.
  • Secure location for regen site.
  • Avoid the start-up cost of new facilities for traffic aggregation on greenfield builds.
  • Establish back up or secondary data center.

Dedicated Internet Access

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In addition to offering separate Transit and Transport circuits, NCTC offers Dedicated Internet Transport (DIA). DIA offers internet connectivity (bandwidth) delivered directly to your headend data center as a “one-stop” solution.  Most of NCTC’s national and regional carriers offer DIA with the following benefits:

  • One point of contact with the provider for service delivery and maintenance.
  • Bundled solution eliminates the need for separate transport, IP transit, and cross-connects.
  • Competitive, “Better Together” rates based on volume.
  • Defined service-level commitments.
  • Circuit protection/redundancy options available.

IPv4 Address Blocks

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NCTC, through our network partner agreements, now offers our member operators affordable pricing on IPv4 address blocks as a standalone product, not tied to a circuit order. Members who need to augment their IPv4 address inventory can lease a block of IPv4 addresses through NCTC for a relatively low rate.

  • No large cash outlay — Members pay a low monthly lease fee for IPv4 addresses obtained through NCTC.
  • No long-term obligation — Members can discontinue their IPv4 lease when they convert to IPv6.
  • Flexibility — Smaller blocks are available, and no circuit order is required.

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