[176367] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Buying IP Bandwidth Across a Peering Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Wed Nov 26 07:44:30 2014
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From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
To: nanog@nanog.org,
bob@fiberinternetcenter.com
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 14:41:04 +0200
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On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 11:03:16 PM Bob Evans wrote:
> I agree with Bill...going it on the cheap is risky. DOn't
> consider it for primary. It may be good for backup. I
> have sold small amounts of transit to non-ISP companies
> on exchanges (100-200 meg). It's a good extra backup for
> ISPs, if you setup your local pref, MED and then prepend
> your AS an extra time or two to the prefixes you
> transmit. Then if you ever need to use it, it's sitting
> there waiting to send and receive traffic. I let ISPs
> customers do that with us for real low cost backup fees.
We don't support that, for example, for reasons stated by=20
many before.
Even if we did, we typically don't offer customer services=20
on peering routers. So physically, it would be a nightmare=20
trying to terminate an IP Transit service from a peering=20
member when the only path between us and them is a peering=20
router. Yes, tunneling works, but tunnels <insert your=20
choice of colourful text here>.
Mark.
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