[141333] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why don't ISPs peer with everyone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Tue Jun 7 19:18:35 2011
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:16:17 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1106071233230.4318@soloth.lewis.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 6/7/2011 11:38 AM, Jon Lewis wrote:
> Additionally, we share at least one common transit provider, so we'd
> be trading <1ms for 1-2ms. Obviously, if we were talking about a
> leased line with any MRC, the answer would be hell no. Since we're
> able to utilize fiber inside the building with no MRC, the answer is
> more of a "why bother?" It's not going to save either of us any
> meaningful amount of transit bandwidth $/capacity.
That's what it really boils down to. How much money can be saved versus
performance. If I'm doing a lot of throughput to a specific network, it
makes sense that I might want to connect to them, especially if that
connection either 1) saves me money or 2) gives me superior QOS/load
balancing without a cost increase.
Anything less than 200mbit of traffic isn't even worth me considering
these days, and as I grow, I'm sure that number will increase. Content
providers generally won't peer unless you meet certain traffic
requirements for the same reason.
Jack
