[44566] in North American Network Operators' Group
[OT] RE: a question about the economics of peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rafi Sadowsky)
Sun Dec 2 02:33:13 2001
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 09:32:05 +0200 (IST)
From: Rafi Sadowsky <rafi-nanog@meron.openu.ac.il>
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To: Hitesh Patel <Hitesh@nildram.net>
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On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Hitesh Patel wrote:
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> 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.
>
Under some definitions a transit free [IN]SP is Tier-1 - so you can
tell your customers you have a Tier one as your fall-back - right ? ( ;-)
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Rafi
