[179504] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering and Network Cost
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Grzegorz Janoszka)
Wed Apr 15 16:12:32 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 22:12:18 +0200
From: Grzegorz Janoszka <Grzegorz@Janoszka.pl>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <552EA4F1.5010700@netassist.ua>
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On 2015-04-15 19:50, Max Tulyev wrote:
> transit cost is lowering close to peering cost, so it is doubghtful
> economy on small channels. If you don't live in
> Amsterdam/Frankfurt/London - add the DWDM cost from you to one of major
> IX. That's the magic.
>
> In large scale peering is still efficient. It is efficient on local
> traffic which is often huge.
Even in the three cities you mentioned peering on small scale is usually
not cheaper at all or only very little.
Please keep in mind that some companies peer despite it offers no
savings for them and at the end of the day it might be even more
expensive. They do it because of performance and reliability reasons.
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Grzegorz Janoszka
