Peering - Benefits?

Wed Oct 29 22:25:05 UTC 2008

Thanks - I believe the wording meant was "alternative path" versus
connection... in other words if an AS has issues with one or more
upstream providers for whatever reason, you have good chances the
peering connection will remain in better shape (not always granted, but
good odds)....

Paul

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From: Steven King [mailto:sking at kingrst.com] 
Sent: October 29, 2008 6:22 PM
To: Paul Stewart
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu; nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: Peering - Benefits?

It would only be a redundant connection if the AS your peering with is a
transit AS. The AS that I work with is a stub AS and can not function as
a fully redundant link.

Just something to watch out for.

Paul Stewart wrote:
> Thanks!  That's a really good one and surprised myself I missed it..;)
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> From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:28 PM
> To: Paul Stewart
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Peering - Benefits?
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> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:17:45 EDT, Paul Stewart said:
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>> I can think of some but looking to develop a concrete list of
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>> -control over routing between networks
>> -security aspect (being able to filter/verify routes to some degree)
>> -latency/performance
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> I'm surprised you didn't include "chance to pick up a redundant
> connection".
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