Peering - Benefits?

Thu Oct 30 14:49:27 UTC 2008

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 01:03:55PM +0000, HRH Sven Olaf Prinz von CyberBunker-Kamphuis MP wrote:

> (the amsix with their many outages and connected parties that rely
> primarliy on it's functionality is a prime example here)
> 
> internet exchanges usually are some sort of hobby computer club, you
> cannot rely on them to actually -work-, but when they do work that's
> "nice" (always make sure you have enough paid capacity to cover for it
> when they do not work however!)

http://www.ams-ix.net/technical/stats/

certainly looks like over 500Gb/s of traffic across ams-ix.  that's a
big 'sort of hobby computer club'.  i wonder what all those hobbiests
are doing.

in all seriousness, the above post is ludicrous.  ams-ix runs one of
the most reliable exchange platforms on the planet due to an
incredible investment in optical switches and duplicate hardware.
it's expensive to run that way but the results have been incredible.

none of that is actually on-target for the original question about the
*value* (other than cost savings) of peering.

so far there have been some good values articulated and there may be
more (reach, latency, diversity of path, diversity of capacity,
control, flexibility, options, price negotation) and some additional
costs have been mentioned (capex for peering routing, opex for the
peering itself + cross connects + switch fees + additional time spent
troubleshooting routing events). 

are there others?

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t.

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