[186561] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: interconnection costs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joly MacFie)
Tue Dec 22 22:03:45 2015
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From: Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:03:02 -0500
To: Reza Motamedi <motamedi@cs.uoregon.edu>
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On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Reza Motamedi <motamedi@cs.uoregon.edu>
wrote:
> Hi NANOG
>
> We are a group of researchers and our focus is on the economy of
> interconnection in the Internet. My question is mainly about the various
> costs of an AS establishing a connection with another AS, including the
> costs charged by the colocation providers. I am familiar with most of the
> connection options such as public peering on IXP, and private peering
> through xconnects. My understanding is that in addition to the cost of
> transit that the smaller AS pays to the larger AS, in the former you pay =
a
> monthly fee to establish a link to the switching fabric and then you can
> connect to as many ASes that are member in the IXP, and in the later you
> need to pay for as many xconnects that you need to connect to as many ASe=
s
> that you plan to peer with. Obviously in both cases there is the cost of
> being in the colocation and renting a rack or whatever. What are the othe=
r
> costs involved? How should the AS reach the colocation center in the firs=
t
> place? I don't think every network can dig a hole an lay cables. Who shou=
ld
> they pay to get from one PoP to another? Do ASes have to pay for xconnect
> to connect their PoP in a data center to the rest of their network?
>
> I think there is no single answer as different businesses may have
> different pricing models. I hope the discussion can help me understand th=
e
> whole ecosystem a little bit better.
>
>
> Best Regards
> Reza Motamedi (R.M)
> Graduate Research Fellow
> Oregon Network Research Group
> Computer and Information Science
> University of Oregon
>
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