Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

Thu Apr 22 14:18:40 UTC 2004

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Michel Py wrote:

> > Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> > I assume Vijay meant the cost of a port for private peering, in which case
> > if you private with all your peers and you have a lot of small peers thats
> > going to be a lot of cost for a few kbps of traffic
> 
> I'm having trouble parsing this. You connect your FE or GE port to an
> ISL/802.11q trunk to the colo's/IX switch. Then either a)everyone is in
> the same broadcast domain (dumb but no config), or there's a VLAN on
> that trunk from/to you to your peer(s). Save for the colo's/IX
> administrative/xconnect fee, where's the "lot of cost"?

This is private vs public..

Steve