How to resell bandwidth

[SenseiSteve]

Vegas, you really need to answer the questions by our members here so we can help, like from Collabora and WizzSolutions. There are bandwidth brokers everywhere, but it all depends on what type of bandwidth you want.

 

[OBH-Peter]

What bandwidth do you want and for what?

 

[zomgmike]

Reselling bandwidth can take a lot of different routes (pun!). It essentially amounts to getting bandwidth commitments directly with the vendors and then selling off portions of that commitment to end users.

Option 1, direct ports:
So, for example, let's say you want to resell bandwidth for a banwidth company called Layer4. You'd go to Layer4 directly and you'd get a commitment of, say 6 gbps at $0.25/meg. By committing to that quantity of bandwidth, you'll achieve prices lower than smaller commitments of, for example, 1-2gbps. Additionally, you'll also get access to one or more 10gigE port(s) that you probably couldn't have gotten had you only signed a smaller commit. (Many bandwidth vendors limit your burstability/port speed to a ratio based on the commitment size.)

At this point, you have a product that smaller hosting companies can't get both in terms of pricing and port capacity. Now you just have to sell it.

In that contract you'd be allowed X number of ports, perhaps 3 total 10gigE ports...it would be however many you negotiated and would most likely be directly related to your price. You'd then approach hosting companies and see if they need ports added to their bandwidth blends. As a reseller, you'd quote them more than you're paying for it but less than they could get it on their own. You'd need to ensure your bandwidth vendor can light the building your customer is in.

Option 2, cross connects from your router:
If you're capable of operating nice routing equipment you can colocate that equipment in major telco hubs. You can then sell off switch ports to others in the building or suite.

This option is typical in situations where your customers are committing to smaller amounts of bandwidth (less than 1gbps.)

With either option:
As a reseller, you'll want to provide some kind of value beyond just price. Bandwidth prices are now low enough that many end-users actually want quality 24/7 support and will pay more for bandwidth to go direct, knowing that they can contact someone who can actually do something in tickets. Your ticket staff would likely just be passing information on to your bandwidth vendors.

 

[egihosting]

Normally DC bandwidth is sold along with Colocation (rack+power) (or) Dedicated Servers. So first you have to decide if you wish to offer colocation/dedicated servers to customers or both.

Choose the DC/location you wish to operate. Get rack space from the service provider and then resell bandwidth/rack space/power/IPs to end customers.

 

[TemasekTech]

are you referring to colo bandwidth reselling?

 

[hostmything]

This thread is a bit misleading, I am a bit confused as well what the OP is referring to.

 

[X4B.Net]

It mainly depends on the data center. They allocate the bandwidth and exchange over this services.

 

[X4B.Net]

Only bandwidth and line owners can speak about it, but I understand by exchange servers look into it.

 

[tanveerhabib]

For what purpose you want to resell bandwidth I think you are asking about bandwidth offerings. Any way you can offer it by setting it in WHM.

 

[SkyNetHosting]

No offence but I'm not sure the OP or anyone else replying this thread knows what exactly its about. Bandwidth provider is more like an ISP or Data Center or are you planning to become something like this;

http://www.level3.com/en/about-us/global-procurement/become-a-vendor/

 

[realbux]

whhat exactly are you trying to resell? You can not resell raw bandwidth.

 

[pkwebhost]

if you are asking about acount bandwidth limit you can
Account Functions »Reset Account Bandwidth Limit
if you are asking about reseller account bandwidth limit you can
Resellers »Edit Reseller Nameservers and Privileges

 

[Jump systems]

You basically need to be a webhosting reseller. In this case ,you are resellling webspace and bandwidth

 

[KurotaTakumi]

Do you mean the CDN service? The best way is find a CDN company and resell their products.