[195451] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US/Canada International border concerns for routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ahad Aboss)
Wed Aug 9 09:15:20 2017
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From: Ahad Aboss <ahad@swiftelnetworks.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2017 03:19:37 +0000
To: "Hiers, David" <David.Hiers@cdk.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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David
Generally speaking, when customers have concerns about their traffic
crossing borders, they do ask upfront.
As a multinational operator you can only guarantee traffic if customers
asks and offcours pays the fee for special class of service.
Ahad
On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 at 9:21 am, Hiers, David <David.Hiers@cdk.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> We're looking to extend some services into Canada. While our lawyers dig
> into it, I thought that I'd ask the hive mind about border restrictions.
>
> For traffic routing, is anyone constraining cross-border routing between
> Canada and the US? IOW, if you are routing from Toronto to Montreal, do
> you have to guarantee that the path cannot go through, say, Syracuse, New
> York?
>
> I'm asking network operators about packet routing; data storage is a very
> different matter, of course.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
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