Best way to supply colo customer with specific provider
Randal Kohutek
nanog at data102.com
Wed Jan 31 01:16:30 UTC 2007
We had that same problem and ended up doing it exactly as below, with
limited BGP announcements and policy routing all over. The customer also
demanded high-bandwidth at low cost, without regard to how good the actual
bandwidth was. It was, as you say, graceless.
Luckily we convinced them to purchase standard multi-carrier transit. I hope
you can do the same :)
Cheers,
Randal Kohutek
>
> Hello all,
>
> Being relatively new to the colocation business, we run into
> a fair number of issues that we've never run into before.
> Got a new one today, and although I can think of kludgey ways
> to accomplish what he wants, I'd rather get some other ideas first...
>
> We just had our first customer that's requesting bandwidth
> exclusively through a particular provider of ours (Cogent) at
> less expensive pricing.
> The money people here are up for it, but obviously, they want
> to make sure that he's confined to that Cogent connection.
>
> So now of course we're attempting to figure out the best way
> to do this, and I figured that rather than reinventing the
> wheel, I'd check to see how others accomplish things like this.
>
> The way I can imagine doing it is by using route-maps to
> steer all of this customer's traffic out the Cogent pipe, and
> modifying our BGP announcements by AS prepending on whatever
> block or blocks we set aside to be "Cogent-exclusive".
>
> Again though, this seems to me to lack a certain amount of,
> for lack of a better word, "grace".
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick Kunkel
>
>
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