[176920] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IXes and AS length
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clayton Zekelman)
Thu Dec 18 12:57:27 2014
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Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:55:22 -0500
To: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>,NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
From: Clayton Zekelman <clayton@MNSi.Net>
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I'm not sure how they can do that. Equinix is Layer 2 - your
peering parameters are between you and your peer?
At 12:52 PM 18/12/2014, Mike Hammett wrote:
>So I just found out that the IX we're looking to hook up with
>(Equinix) doesn't allow downstream ASes. How does that functionally work?
>
>Stepping outside my ISP for a moment, I know a building owner with
>several buildings that provides Internet to his tenants. He's
>getting an AS so he can have upstream diversity. Unless carrier A or
>ISP B have direct private peering with whomever (Amazon, NetFlix,
>Google, FaceBook, etc., etc.), that building owner doesn't have a
>route to those services? They can't utilize carrier A or ISP B's
>public peering connection? How can that possibly bee with with every
>ISP being required to have their own physical presence on the
>exchange? That's just not practical.
>
>I understand not having parallel ASNs (advertising both ASN A and
>ASN B separately) from a sales perspective, but I don't understand
>ASN A advertising directly on the IX, but not allowing ASN A's
>downstream customers of ASNs B, C, D and E.
>
>Am I wrong or is this just an Equinix thing?
>
>
>
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>Mike Hammett
>Intelligent Computing Solutions
>http://www.ics-il.com
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Clayton Zekelman
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