[152003] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Question about peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luke S. Crawford)
Sat Apr 7 18:35:54 2012
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 18:35:15 -0400
From: "Luke S. Crawford" <lsc@prgmr.com>
To: NANOG Mailing List <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <86wr5r4281.fsf@seastrom.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 06:16:30PM -0400, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> Sometimes making the AS path as short as possible makes a lot of sense
> (e.g. when trying to get an anycast network to do the right thing),
> but assumptions that peering results in lower costs are less true
> every day.
I keep reading people say that. But wouldn't the same forces that push
down the per-megabit cost of transit also push down the per-megabit
cost of peering?
