[85848] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 news
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Jakma)
Tue Oct 18 10:46:16 2005
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:46:04 +0100 (IST)
From: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
To: Andre Oppermann <nanog-list@nrg4u.com>
Cc: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com, nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Again, this fails with the asymmetric nature of IP routing.
The assymetric nature is plus-point. It means the traffic out of the
area goes out via the "correct" provider (ie the one whose customer
it is).
> On top it fails on bandwidth issues. What if super-cheap pron
> hoster X is in that area doing streaming full-res HDTV to it's
> suckers?
It goes via the ISP(s) which "super cheap hoster X" pays for transit.
> I bet some participants in your service area face some serious link
> saturation issues. None of the participants have any control or
> estimates over the traffic that is and will be passing through
> them.
Yep.
> Traffic flows will just happen there. Forget capacity planning.
> You'd have a hard time finding ISP's interested in that.
Maybe.
Look at it the other way though, it's a business opportunity - you
can make money by attracting as much area-destined external traffic
as possible and handing it off to correct intra-area ISP for that
subscriber. The more the better, it's a potential revenue source.
It's in your interest to be able to carry all the external traffic
into the area that you can get.
regards,
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