[151229] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Tue Mar 13 20:33:47 2012
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:32:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4F5FE451.6040004@snappydsl.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, Faisal Imtiaz wrote:
> Why do you want to do BGP with Comcast or Verizon ? (Over FIOS or Cable ?)
To gain redundancy for a consulting client.
> Is the intent to Peer with their network ? (which they will rightfully only
> allow on bigger fatter connections)..
I think you mean "higher margin connections" ;) As far as I know, most
major carriers will still sell you a T1 for Internet access (and even
BGP!) if you want it.
> Are you trying to delivery your IP's to a End Customer behind that FIOS /
> Cable Connection ? ...
> (there a ways to accomplish this without needing their cooperation..)
Running BGP over a tunnel is one (albeit sub-optimal) option, but I don't
know of any providers that sell such a service.
All of the other options have varying degrees of downside, i.e. how much
of an outage are you willing to put up with when provider A fails,
transferring DNS records, etc.
jms
