[150410] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IX in France
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (virendra rode)
Thu Feb 23 13:29:46 2012
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:28:43 -0800
From: virendra rode <virendra.rode@gmail.com>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <AB08CDF9-CA46-4D63-ADD9-5EEDBA6599A2@puck.nether.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: virendra.rode@gmail.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On 02/23/2012 10:00 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:
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> On Feb 23, 2012, at 12:39 PM, virendra rode wrote:
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>> I understand this is not true peering relationship, however its an
>> interesting way to obtain exchange point routes and I understand this is
>> nothing new.
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> <mini-rant>
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> I've found people who use the term 'peering' to mean something different than what I personally interpret it to mean.
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> eg: "We have peering with 4 carriers at our colocation facility where you can place gear"
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> Translation: We have blended IP transit from 4 carriers, or you can directly connect to them as needed.
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> I understand why they call it this, because "I configured peering with Level3/Cogent" on my router, etc. The difference is in the policy. What you're speaking of is someone selling transit, which is perfectly fine over various IXes, you generally are prohibited from 'selling next-hop', i.e.: you have to bear the cost on the IX port of the forwarding.
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> </mini-rant>
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Correct, I meant to say private peering as opposed to settlement-free.
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> Buying transit isn't as dirty as people think it is, sometimes its the right business decision. If you connect to an IX for $4000/mo at gig-e, you might as well buy transit at $4/meg on that same port IMHO. You're unlikely to be using the port at 100% anyways at the IX, so your cost-per-meg there needs to properly reflect your 95% or whatnot.
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> - Jared
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I understand, I'm trying to factor in cost of peering (transport,
equipment, cross-connect, colocation, equipment cost) of buying transit
vs private peering.
regards,
/virendra
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