[44552] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: a question about the economics of peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Sat Dec 1 08:31:37 2001
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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@gitoyen.net>
To: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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(Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>'s message of
Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:52:28 EST)
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Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 14:18:14 +0100
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On Friday 30 November 2001, at 11 h 52,
Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net> wrote:
> While speaking with them today, thier engineer and I got into a little bit
> of a disagreement as to why people peer with each other at public exchange
> points.
There is also an important reason to be connected at several exchange points: reliability. If you just have one transit provider, you're more vulnerable than with one transit provider plus a variety of peerings, which will still carry at least part of the traffic if the main provider fails.
