[163018] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Variety, On The Media, don't understand the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed May 15 13:30:31 2013
To: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 May 2013 11:46:36 -0400."
<5193ADDC.2030401@vaxination.ca>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 13:29:46 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Wed, 15 May 2013 11:46:36 -0400, Jean-Francois Mezei said:
> Not all ISPs are fortunate enough to be in a town where there is an
> active exchange with Netflix/Akamai/Google presence.
>=20
> For instance, Montr=E9al just recently oopened a peering exchange. Whil=
e
> 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.
AS1312 isn't particularly large (2 /16s, 30K students, 8K fac/staff), and=
Akamai was more than willing to drop a cache unit in our machine room.
And Google was happy to meet us at the upstream end of our link to
the outside world - but I half-suspect that was just because we make thei=
r
IPv6 stats look good :)
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