[NANOG] peering between ASes

Joel Jaeggli joelja at bogus.com
Fri May 16 15:31:16 UTC 2008


Kai Chen wrote:
> Hi, here is a quick question.
> 1. Beside public peering in IXP and private peering between two dedicated
> ASes, are there any other interconnection models in the current Internet?

There is the model where all partcipants peer through agency of 3rd 
party. That tends to be looked on as an extremely bad idea, but some 
regulatory environments encourage or enforce that sort of behavior 
particularly around the monopoly PTT.

> 2. How does private peering implement, just a router from each AS and a link
> inbetween? Do they have multi-access in one peering location? I mean one
> router from an AS peer with two/more routers from another AS?

you'll find that the details vary between entities. some bi-lateral 
relationships are going to require peering in more than one location, 
require a minimum ammount of redundancy etc. depends on how business 
critical the relationship is, how much traffic is being exchanged, the 
sized of the networks involved etc.

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