[138978] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Regional AS model
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey S. Young)
Thu Mar 24 17:09:34 2011
In-Reply-To: <8B604AC6-01B7-45C7-8DCD-5559758E371B@zaidali.com>
From: "Jeffrey S. Young" <young@jsyoung.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:08:42 +1100
To: Zaid Ali <zaid@zaidali.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Multiple AS, one per region, is about extracting maximum revenue from=20
your client base. In 2000 we had no technical reason to do it, I can't see
a technical reason to do it today. This is a layer 8/9 issue.
jy
On 25/03/2011, at 5:42 AM, Zaid Ali <zaid@zaidali.com> wrote:
> I have seen age old discussions on single AS vs multiple AS for backbone a=
nd datacenter design. I am particularly interested in operational challenges=
for running AS per region e.g. one AS for US, one EU etc or I have heard fo=
lks do one AS per DC. I particularly don't see any advantage in doing one AS=
per region or datacenter since most of the reasons I hear is to reduce the i=
BGP mesh. I generally prefer one AS and making use of confederation.=20
>=20
> Zaid
