Hurricane Electric AS6939
Brandon Martin
lists.nanog at monmotha.net
Wed Oct 14 00:01:28 UTC 2020
On 10/13/20 7:29 PM, Aaron Gould wrote:
> Do y’all like HE for Internet uplink? I’m thinking about using them for 100gig in Texas. It would be for my eyeballs ISP. We currently have Spectrum, Telia and Cogent.
They're a good bulk/budget option in a blend. A decent number of
content hosts are keen to source traffic into them. I would be loathe
to be single-homed to them, but even then they're not the worst option
in that department.
If you've already got Telia, Spectrum, and Cogent, 6939 is probably a
great addition to your blend.
They'll probably want a 5yr contract out of you to get their best (and
headline per-Mbps) rate. Evaluate carefully what position that puts you
in based on the continually dropping cost of wholesale transit and bulk
interconnect opportunities. You may prefer a shorter contract term at
slightly higher rates.
As others said, if you don't need full routes from them, they have a
VERY open peering policy, and that 100G port might be better suited to a
local IX where you can pick them up along with a bunch of other content
networks.
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Brandon Martin
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