Peering Exchange

Wed Jan 27 01:00:48 UTC 2016

Someone actually sent me a list from Equinix. If it says MLPE next to the
IP address of the provider then I assume they are using the MLPE route
server, and if not I assume you have to reach out to peer with them. Does
that sound accurate?

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Bryan Socha <bryan at digitalocean.com> wrote:

> Check out nl nog's the ring (they have a looking glass), routeviews or
> ripe's RIS project (bgplay) being an interface to the data).    You should
> be able to find someone sending up bgp data to these projects that include
> the route servers on different IX points.
>
>
> Bryan Socha
> Network Engineer
> DigitalOcean
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to browse a route server at certain exchanges, and see who
>> is and is not on the route server?
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Hugo Slabbert <hugo at slabnet.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue 2016-Jan-26 13:30:41 -0600, Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Google or Facebook are exactly who you would want to connect with and
>> I'm
>> >> fairly sure they're on the route servers.
>> >>
>> >
>> > ...and have open peering policies with pretty low requirements.
>> >
>> > https://peering.google.com/about/peering_policy.html
>> > https://www.facebook.com/peering/
>> >
>> > Gist:
>> >
>> > Google (in NA and EU) asks for >100 mbps peak for bilateral peering, but
>> > are on route servers where present and are happy to dish out & pick up
>> > routes that way for anyone not pushing enough bits for direct sessions.
>> >
>> > Facebook wants >50 mbps peak for bilateral peering, though I don't see
>> > them on route servers at e.g. the SIX.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Hugo
>> >
>> > hugo at slabnet.com: email, xmpp/jabber
>> > PGP fingerprint (B178313E):
>> > CF18 15FA 9FE4 0CD1 2319 1D77 9AB1 0FFD B178 313E
>> >
>> > (also on Signal)
>> >
>> >
>> > Other than driving additional revenue by needing to buy ports to both or
>> >> possible regulatory concerns, I'm not sure why these companies spin up
>> an
>> >> exchange for every new fad that comes along. They all just boil down
>> to an
>> >> Ethernet fabric.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -----
>> >> Mike Hammett
>> >> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>> >> http://www.ics-il.com
>> >>
>> >>
>>
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