[193340] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bandwidth Savings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Hicks)
Wed Jan 11 15:55:10 2017
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From: Richard Hicks <richard.hicks@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 12:55:05 -0800
To: Keenan Singh <keenansingh@airlinktt.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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I don't know the the Caribbean Internet Exchanges market. Are any worth
peering at versus buying additional L2 bandwidth to Miami?
https://cw.ams-ix.net/
http://www.ocix.net/ocix/
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Keenan Singh <keenansingh@airlinktt.net>
wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> We are an ISP in the Caribbean, and are faced with extremely high Bandwid=
th
> costs, compared to the US, we currently use Peer App for Caching however
> with most services now moving to HTTPS the cache is proving to be less an=
d
> less effective. We are currently looking at any way we can save on
> Bandwidth or to be more Efficient with the Bandwidth we currently have. W=
e
> do have a Layer 2 Circuit between the Island and Miami, I am seeing there
> are WAN Accelerators where they would put a Server on either end and sort
> of Compress and decompress the Traffic before it goes over the Layer 2, I
> have never used this before, has any one here used anything like this, wh=
at
> results would I be able to expect for ISP Traffic?
>
> If not any ideas on Bandwidth Savings, or being more Efficient with want =
we
> currently.
>
> Many thanks for any Help
>
> Keenan
>
