[176337] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Buying IP Bandwidth Across a Peering Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Epstein)
Tue Nov 25 13:51:07 2014
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:50:53 -0500
From: Randy Epstein <nanog@hostleasing.net>
To: Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com>,
NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 11/25/14, 1:47 PM, "Colton Conor" <colton.conor@gmail.com> wrote:
>I know typically peering exchanges are made for peering traffic between
>providers, but can you buy IP transit from a provider on an exchange? An
>example, buy a 10G port on an exchange, peer 5Gbps of traffic with
>multiple
>providers on the exchange, and buy 5Gbps of IP transit from others on the
>exchange?
>
>Some might ask why not get a cross connect to the provider. It is cheaper
>to buy an port on the exchange (which includes the cross connect to the
>exchange) than buy multiple cross connects. Plus we are planning on
>getting
>a wave to the exchange, and not having any physical routers or switches at
>the datacenter where the exchange/wave terminates at. Is this possible?
Depends on the exchange. Some allow it, some don=E2=80=99t. Some don=E2=80=99t have a
policy.
Some providers offer it, some don=E2=80=99t.
Randy
