[176365] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Buying IP Bandwidth Across a Peering Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Wed Nov 26 07:37:47 2014
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From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 14:36:39 +0200
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On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 09:51:47 PM Colton Conor=20
wrote:
> Are exchanges really that unreliable compared to a
> traditional cross connect?
Not necessarily.=20
It's just that when money is changing hands, folk tend to=20
find (passive) x-connects within the data centre to be far=20
more reliable (even though they are not infallible) than=20
passing traffic across another (active) system being run by=20
someone else in the same physical facility.
Plus, some service providers will drastically reduce or=20
eliminate SLA's (for whatever they may be worth) if there is=20
another active system in between you and their service.
Mark.
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