[69850] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Tue Apr 20 23:38:37 2004
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:38:07 -0700
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>,
"Patrick W.Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> I assume Vijay meant the cost of a port for private
> peering, in which case if you private with all your
> peers and you have a lot of small peers thats going
> to be a lot of cost for a few kbps of traffic
I'm having trouble parsing this. You connect your FE or GE port to an
ISL/802.11q trunk to the colo's/IX switch. Then either a)everyone is in
the same broadcast domain (dumb but no config), or there's a VLAN on
that trunk from/to you to your peer(s). Save for the colo's/IX
administrative/xconnect fee, where's the "lot of cost"?
Michel.
