OCI FastConnect Calculator
Cost FastConnect ports, which bill per port-hour with no per-GB charge, and value the internet egress they displace.
About OCI FastConnect Calculator
FastConnect is priced purely as a port-hour fee: private virtual circuits carry inbound and outbound traffic with no per-GB charge at all, which is why the data transfer line here is zero. The port speed only sets how much you can push, so the useful number is cost per terabyte actually carried, which falls as utilisation rises. Because FastConnect removes the per-GB meter entirely, a circuit pays for itself once your egress volume is large enough that the avoided internet transfer charge exceeds the port and carrier fees — remember the first 10 TB of internet egress is free anyway, so the comparison starts above that. Confirm the port-hour price for your speed and region in the Oracle Cloud cost estimator.
Formula
OCI FastConnect
monthly = ports × port-hour price × hours + ports × provider fee, with no per-GB charge on private virtual circuits; capacity = port speed × 3,600 × hours ÷ 8 ÷ 1,048,576 TB.
- port-hour price
- The only charge Oracle levies for FastConnect
- provider fee
- Carrier or colocation cross-connect charge, billed outside OCI
- capacity
- Terabytes the port could carry per month at line rate
Worked example
With the default values below, OCI FastConnect Calculator returns Monthly Cost of $2,239.20. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.
Inputs used
- Port speedone of 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps, 100 Gbps, 400 Gbps
- 10 Gbps
- Price per port-houraccepts 0–200 USD/hour
- 0.9 USD/hour
- Number of portsaccepts 1–64 ports
- 2 ports
- Billed hours per monthaccepts 1–744 hours
- 744 hours
- Partner or cross-connect fee per portaccepts 0–100,000 USD/month
- 450 USD/month
- Traffic carried over FastConnectaccepts 0–100,000 TB/month
- 40 TB/month
- Internet egress price per GBaccepts 0–1 USD/GB
- 0.0085 USD/GB
- Free internet egress allowanceaccepts 0–100 TB/month
- 10 TB/month
Results
- Monthly Cost
- $2,239.20
- FastConnect Port Charge
- $1,339.20
- Provider Charge
- $900.00
- Oracle Data Transfer Charge
- $0.00
- Internet Egress Charge Avoided
- $261.12
- Effective Cost per TB Carried
- $55.98
- Port Utilisation
- 1.3%
- Port Capacity at Full Rate
- 3,193 TB/month
Step by step
- 1Values used
- 2OCI FastConnect
- 3Monthly Cost= 2,239.20
- 4FastConnect Port Charge= 1,339.20
- 5Provider Charge= 900.00
- 6Oracle Data Transfer Charge= 0.00
- 7Internet Egress Charge Avoided= 261.12
- 8Effective Cost per TB Carried= 55.98
Assumptions and limits
- The result is derived only from the 8 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
- In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, tax or compounding frequency into account.
- Figures are rounded for display to 2 decimal places, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.
How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is OCI FastConnect calculated?
monthly = ports × port-hour price × hours + ports × provider fee, with no per-GB charge on private virtual circuits; capacity = port speed × 3,600 × hours ÷ 8 ÷ 1,048,576 TB. FastConnect is priced purely as a port-hour fee: private virtual circuits carry inbound and outbound traffic with no per-GB charge at all, which is why the data transfer line here is zero. The port speed only sets how much you can push, so the useful number is cost per terabyte actually carried, which falls as utilisation rises.
Why does OCI FastConnect matter?
Because FastConnect removes the per-GB meter entirely, a circuit pays for itself once your egress volume is large enough that the avoided internet transfer charge exceeds the port and carrier fees — remember the first 10 TB of internet egress is free anyway, so the comparison starts above that. Confirm the port-hour price for your speed and region in the Oracle Cloud cost estimator.
What values do I need to enter?
This calculator takes 8 inputs: Port speed, Price per port-hour, Number of ports, Billed hours per month, Partner or cross-connect fee per port, Traffic carried over FastConnect, Internet egress price per GB, Free internet egress allowance. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.