PAIX Outages

Fri Apr 29 13:25:07 UTC 2005

> With public peering you simply never know how much spare 
> capacity your peer has free.

So with your key peers you talk to them and find out, but 
I don't see how this is any different if you have a private 
interconnect. Just because you have say a STM-1 into another peer
doesn't mean they have the STM-1 to carry the traffic out, given
your example below I'd say its even more unlikely.

> And would you expect your peer 
> with 400 Mbit/s total to have 400 reserved on his AMSIX port 
> for you when you see 300 at LINX and LINX goes down?

Key ones, yes.

> Been there, numerous times. I still tend to say - it depends 
> on your type of peers and traffic per peer.

But your point on public versus private doesn't alter those facts.