Uses of Package
com.eqixiac.equinix.design.value.ratecard

Package
Description
Pricing of candidate designs: RateCardCostModel is the CostModel the Metro Optimizer uses, pricing each metro's needs from a RateCard with every line's source and a range from PriceBands.
Estate analysis: looks at what a customer already runs on Equinix and produces a priced, evidence-backed improvement report.
The Metro Optimizer: which set of Equinix metros best serves a DesignSpec, as a multi-objective search.
The Deployment Wizard: turns a metro OptimizationResult into an executable DeploymentPlan - Cloud Routers, provider connections, inter-metro backbone links, and routing protocols, with bandwidth-aware profile selection and honestly-reconciled pricing.
Value types for the Deployment Wizard - the plan itself and everything it is made of, plus the execution-side inputs and outcomes.
The Design Decision Record: the one document an architect hands to a review board for a DesignSpec.
Failure analysis of a design.
The shared design document every design engine reads: DesignSpec.
Extension points of the design engines.
The value-realization layer of the design API: design-time cost modelling that puts a money figure on an interconnect decision.
Rate cards: pluggable sources of unit prices for the design-time cost, savings, and TCO models.
Live cloud-provider pricing adapters: RateCard implementations that source current data-egress list prices from the providers' public pricing APIs - AwsPriceListRateCard (AWS Price List bulk offers), AzureRetailPricesRateCard (Azure Retail Prices), GcpBillingCatalogRateCard (GCP Cloud Billing Catalog; the only one needing an API key), and OracleCloudPriceListRateCard (OCI Price List).
Cloud-egress savings estimation: how much routing a monthly data volume over an Equinix private interconnect saves versus egressing it to the public internet, net of the Equinix interconnect cost.
Design-time total-cost-of-ownership comparison across the DeploymentArchetypes - public cloud over the internet, on-premises, Equinix-interconnected, and (for a cloud-to-cloud comparison) the providers' native multicloud link.
The embedded Equinix Intelligence MCP Server - a community Model Context Protocol server, not affiliated with or endorsed by Equinix, and separate from Equinix's official Fabric MCP server.