[44541] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: a question about the economics of peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chrisy Luke)
Fri Nov 30 19:31:41 2001
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 00:30:09 +0000
From: Chrisy Luke <chrisy@flix.net>
To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>
Cc: Nigel Titley <nigel@titley.com>, batz <batsy@vapour.net>,
"David R. Dick" <drd@sii-nh.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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Neil J. McRae wrote (on Nov 30):
> yeah don't talk to me about some of the bozo companies I've had
> to talk to about "congestion at the peering points" and how they
> can wave their magic wand and make all those problems go away.
A current pitch from a certain newish IXP entrant in London is that
they can save me money off my Transit bill. When vendors get their
facts so blatantly wrong about your company, I seriously consider whether
they're worth doing business with - true it's just the sales droid,
but IXen don't need that many sales droids, I thought...
> Sounds like something we looked at a while ago - layer 2 interconnectivity
> over IP or MPLS for ISP's - we couldn't make the numbers add up though.
It's something I have considered for backup connectivity, but it never
went anywhere. I'm waiting for Nigel to pitch to me, in case his version
makes sense. :)
Chris.
