[176349] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Buying IP Bandwidth Across a Peering Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ammar Zuberi)
Tue Nov 25 19:21:33 2014
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From: Ammar Zuberi <ammar@fastreturn.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAMDdSzPxnkC8ziu_Nidh741ZM6PUvmq7WojeA9TwU7VifiLwcQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 22:52:54 +0400
To: Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Hi Conor,
I know this is possible since Hurricane Electric does it for IPv6 transit, h=
owever, I'm not sure if it violates any exchange rules or if it's even a goo=
d idea.
> On 25 Nov 2014, at 10:47 pm, Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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 multipl=
e
> providers on the exchange, and buy 5Gbps of IP transit from others on the
> exchange?
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> 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 gettin=
g
> 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?
