IP transit vs dedicated internet: which do you need?

Do you run your own network on the internet, with your own IP address space and routers that speak BGP? If yes, you are a transit customer. If no, you are a dedicated internet customer. Everything else follows from that answer.

Transit is the wholesale product. An ISP, mobile operator or large enterprise with its own address space connects to a gateway and exchanges routes with it. The gateway carries the customer's traffic to everywhere on the internet and accepts traffic back. Capacity is committed and typically upgraded in steps as subscribers grow.

• Sold by capacity, to networks that run BGP.
• The customer is responsible for its own routing, security and end-user support.
• What matters: route diversity, direct interconnects with content networks, and the escalation path when a route fails.

Dedicated internet is the retail product for organizations: a fixed connection for one office, campus or factory that is not shared with other customers at peak hour. The provider handles the routing; the customer plugs in.

• Sold by connection speed to a single site, with optional backup links.
• The provider owns routing and the upstream path; the customer owns their LAN.
• What matters: whether the link is truly uncontended, how backup works, and how quickly a fault is answered.

Because Mango holds both an IIG licence and an ISP licence, the same gateway that sells transit to operators delivers dedicated internet to enterprises. The practical benefit is a short path: your office link reaches international capacity without passing through another company's network first.