[69952] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Thu Apr 22 10:20:20 2004
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:18:40 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Michel Py <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
Cc: "Patrick W.Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <DD7FE473A8C3C245ADA2A2FE1709D90B0DB0B6@server2003.arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Michel Py wrote:
> > 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"?
This is private vs public..
Steve
