[49306] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Sprint peering policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Thu Jun 27 20:14:32 2002
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 20:13:37 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0206271951450.17779-100000@cpu1693.adsl.bell
global.com>
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At 08:00 PM 6/27/2002 -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
>
>> Pick a strategy and run with it. Being a broadband provider in
>> SE Canada, I suggest sniffing out public peering in NYC and CHI
>> for a start. IIRC, Hotmail and Y! are at AADS and will peer with
>> most anyone -- there's a good chunk of traffic. Now Akamaize
>> your network if you haven't already.
>
>I'm already working on NYC. For Chicago an OC3 connection to AADS would
>cost more than the long-haul back to Toronto. I also prefer ethernet
>peering instead of ATM. Equinix looks like the best option in Chicago,
>but most long-haul carriers are in 600 Federal and not 350 Cermak.
>
>As for Akamai, I've found very little of my traffic (<5%) is
>Akamai. Akamai is at NYIIX anyway, so once I get into 25 Broadway I'd
>peer with them.
Mind if I ask how you got the traffic stats for Akamai?
>-Ralph
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TTFN,
patrick
