[49430] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint peering policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Mon Jul 1 14:36:12 2002
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:36:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: Clayton Fiske <clay@bloomcounty.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20020701110857.A73927@bloomcounty.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Here's a fun exercise: Drop your 5 busiest peers, and see if your
> operating costs a) increase, b) decrease, or c) remain the same.
If your full cost of peering with UUNET (including things such as
depreciation) comes to $400 per mbit/sec and via a promisig local ISP you
can get transit to UUNET at $200 per mbit/sec, your costs will decrease.
Just because the IP is free with peering does not mean that it costs $0 to
peer.
Alex
