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RE: Peering - Benefits?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michael.dillon@bt.com)
Thu Oct 30 10:07:22 2008

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:06:59 -0000
In-Reply-To: <9AFB2A51-6EE0-440C-9A71-4C0A4D678455@nosignal.org>
From: <michael.dillon@bt.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org


> On 30 Oct 2008, at 13:03, HRH Sven Olaf Prinz von=20
> CyberBunker-Kamphuis MP wrote:
>=20
> > internet exchanges are not per-se "redundant"
>=20
> Those networks who *choose* connect to peers via a single=20
> fabric, in a single location, will suffer a similar fate to=20
> those networks who single home to one transit provider.

Are you referring to his royal highness' network?
<http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=3DAS34109&v=3D4&view=3D2=
.0>

In any case, if you are really interested in achieving highly
reliable connectivity to the Internet, you need to start by
engineering it into your design. It's not just a matter of=20
choosing the right mix of peering and transit.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliable_system_design>

--Michael Dillon


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