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We're a post-production company that has offices in NY and LA, and we spend a lot of money FedExing hard drives back and forth, containing ProRes files of feature films (100-200GB each.)

Is there some service that would allow us to save money by uploading the files at either end over a fast connection? Like 100mbps or more?

We don't need a 'dedicated' connection; we'd like to pay by the hour or GB.

Most of the files are 100-200GB.

FIOS would do the job; unfortunately, it's not available at either location.

Thanks!

(To clarify: we're not looking for a software solution; the bottleneck is our physical internet connections which max out at around 5mbps upstream.

We need some facility that will allow us to 'rent/lease' a high-speed (50mbps+) internet connection.)

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We don't need a 'dedicated' connection; we'd like to pay by the hour or GB

You do need a dedicated connection, but you don't need to pay for a full 1GB/sec of bandwidth. What you want is a fiber connection that is burstable. You pay a base fee for the dedicated connection, and then you purchase a basic amount of bandwidth that you pay for each month. Finally, you have an overage fee that you pay when you consume more than your basic amount of bandwidth. In the commercial telecom world, this isn't nearly as usurious as in the retail/mobile world. It is also typically measured at the 95th or 99th percentile. So you can go "over" very briefly without incurring any penalty. And if you find that you go over frequently, you can always renegotiate your contract to have a larger base.

Search for things like "metro fiber" and "ip transit." Call a few different vendors up and see what they suggest. My gut feeling is that you should expect to pay around $3000 a month. This could go as low as $1000 if someone else already has fiber to your building. It could go higher too.

You will also need routers at each end, but you may be able to bundle a router lease into your contract.

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