[176383] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Buying IP Bandwidth Across a Peering Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Seastrom)
Wed Nov 26 13:15:48 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com>
From: Rob Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 13:13:34 -0500
In-Reply-To: <CAMDdSzPxnkC8ziu_Nidh741ZM6PUvmq7WojeA9TwU7VifiLwcQ@mail.gmail.com> (Colton
Conor's message of "Tue, 25 Nov 2014 12:47:01 -0600")
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com> writes:
> 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?
"Technically possible" and "advisable" are two different things. If
you enjoy finger-pointing on the occasions where you are trying to
smoke out performance issues, I encourage as many third, fourth, and
fifth-party-managed network layers in the mix as possible. A wave
with no way to test to the handoff point would of course be the icing
on the cake.
Are you sure you can't afford to sublet a few ru of space from someone
and pay for a couple extra cross connects?
-r
