[163015] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Variety, On The Media, don't understand the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Wed May 15 12:50:22 2013
In-Reply-To: <5193ADDC.2030401@vaxination.ca>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 12:50:07 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Jean-Francois Mezei
<jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 13-05-15 06:24, james@towardex.com wrote:
>
>> We're a small ISP and we reach lot of content via peering just fine. Lo=
t of
>> these contents that you speak of (Netflix, Akamai, et al) have open peer=
ing
>> policies and are present in more exchange points than anybody else.
>
> Not all ISPs are fortunate enough to be in a town where there is an
> active exchange with Netflix/Akamai/Google presence.
>
> For instance, Montr=E9al just recently oopened a peering exchange. While
> this will eventually allow local ISPs to peer with the big content
> providers, until this happens, small ISPs have to get that content via
> paid transit links.
or via some cooperative arrangement with another IX participant, no?
> Toronto has "local" content available via peering so smaller ISPs can
> benefit from that. But not every city has that chance.
>
>
> Netflix's policy does require a minimum amount of traffic before an ISP
> can deploy an Open Connect appliance. So smaller ISPs are at a
> disadvantage if they are located in a city without CDN presence.
>
