[126145] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Surcharge for providing Internet routes?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon May 3 11:25:21 2010
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <82F5B9D8-0FC4-4864-92D5-47DD228EF335@harg.net>
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 11:24:44 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On May 3, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Will Hargrave wrote:
> 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. :(
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> This is relatively common in europe too - normally under the name =
'partial transit'.
At least they are naming it correctly.
> paid peering: [provider AS] + [providers customers]=20
> partial transit: [provider AS] + [providers customers] + [providers =
peers]
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> Pricing is typically 5-20% of the cost of full routes, and will =
provide in the region of 40-120k routes.
And pricing it correctly!
Let's see, transit is at $1/Mbps, so I can get 120K prefixes for =
$0.05/Mbps? <snicker>
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TTFN,
patrick=
