[179508] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering and Network Cost
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Thu Apr 16 02:11:42 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Grzegorz Janoszka <Grzegorz@Janoszka.pl>, nanog@nanog.org
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:10:25 +0200
in-reply-to: <552EC622.8090004@Janoszka.pl>
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On 15/Apr/15 22:12, Grzegorz Janoszka wrote:
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> 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.
And also to reduce AS hops. If you and your competition are pushing BGP
routes to your multi-homed customers, the customers are "more likely" to
choose paths with fewer AS hops. Traffic to you means $$ to you. In the
long run, it "could" pay off, or at the very least, get you more customers.
Mark.
