[141291] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Why don't ISPs peer with everyone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Weaver)
Tue Jun 7 10:16:11 2011
From: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>
To: 'Jon Lewis' <jlewis@lewis.org>, "bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com"
<bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 10:15:48 -0400
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1106070914260.4318@soloth.lewis.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Lewis [mailto:jlewis@lewis.org]=20
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 10:00 AM
-snip-
I manage a network that's primarily a hosting network. There's a similar=20
hosting network at the other end of the building. We both have multiple=20
gigs of transit. We don't peer with each other. Perhaps we should,=20
because the cost of the connection would be negligible (I think we already=
=20
have multiple fiber pairs between our suites), but looking at my sampled=20
netflow data, I'm guessing we average about 100kbit/s or less traffic in=20
each direction between us. At that low a level, is it even worth the time=
=20
and trouble to coordinate setting up a peering connection, much less=20
tying up a gigE port at each end?
-----
100kbit/s at <1ms is better than 100kbit/s at > 1ms.
We are hosting as well and some of our top 25 ASNs are other hosting networ=
ks, YMMV.
-Drew
