[43156] in North American Network Operators' Group
Provider Bypass
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Wolff)
Sun Sep 30 19:52:49 2001
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 16:49:00 -0700
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From: "Christopher Wolff" <chris@bblabs.com>
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Dear List:
I have a customer that has a 3 meg link into my backbone providers network. Unfortunately they are not getting anywhere near 3 megs between their 3 meg link and my 100meg direct connect over this backbone network. (Lucky to get 1 meg) The existing provider is 'reluctant to reroute traffic over a more optimal link for 1 customer'. (I'll keep my venting to myself on this one..)
Lets say I add another provider that has a peering point 12ms away from this customer. Is it possible to route this traffic through the alternative provider?
I guess the easy solution would be to advertise only this customers specific network to the alternative provider.
I know this is a vague question, just would appreciate some opinions and thoughts.
Regards,
Christopher Wolff, VP, CIO
Broadband Labs
http://www.bblabs.com
