I totally understand that but the price hasn't dropped in what, a decade? My home internet connection (which includes a shedload of last mile costs laying fibre to my apartment) has went from 2mbit/sec to 1gig/sec (for less money in real terms) in a similar timespan.
I'm not expecting it to be at the cost of a 10gig cogent connection at LINX, but some drop makes sense. DO/Backblaze pricing seems to be more on the money.
Keep in mind these provides also do charge on top for a lot of other networking services (VPCs, NATs etc) which often can really add up, so I'd expect some of the SDN capex to be absorbed by that.
I'm not expecting it to be at the cost of a 10gig cogent connection at LINX, but some drop makes sense. DO/Backblaze pricing seems to be more on the money.
Keep in mind these provides also do charge on top for a lot of other networking services (VPCs, NATs etc) which often can really add up, so I'd expect some of the SDN capex to be absorbed by that.