[126144] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Surcharge for providing Internet routes?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Hargrave)
Mon May 3 10:44:51 2010
From: Will Hargrave <will@harg.net>
In-Reply-To: <w2v63ac96a51005022027r366024d9lfd7d4d85f03f9e5d@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 16:43:58 +0200
To: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 3 May 2010, at 05:27, Matthew Petach wrote:
> In Asia, there is a popular, but incorrectly named product offering
> that many ISPs sell called "domestic transit" which they sell
> for price $X; for "full routes" you often pay $2X-$3X. I grind my
> teeth every time I hear it, since "transit" doesn't mean "to select
> parts of the internet" in most people's eyes. It's really a paid
> peering offering, but no matter how much I try to correct people,
> the habit of calling it "domestic transit" still persists. :(
This is relatively common in europe too - normally under the name =
'partial transit'.
paid peering: [provider AS] + [providers customers]=20
partial transit: [provider AS] + [providers customers] + [providers =
peers]
Pricing is typically 5-20% of the cost of full routes, and will provide =
in the region of 40-120k routes.
