IX in France

Thu Feb 23 18:28:43 UTC 2012

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On 02/23/2012 10:00 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:
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> On Feb 23, 2012, at 12:39 PM, virendra rode wrote:
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>> I understand this is not true peering relationship, however its an
>> interesting way to obtain exchange point routes and I understand this is
>> nothing new.
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> I've found people who use the term 'peering' to mean something different than what I personally interpret it to mean.
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> eg: "We have peering with 4 carriers at our colocation facility where you can place gear"
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> Translation: We have blended IP transit from 4 carriers, or you can directly connect to them as needed.
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> I understand why they call it this, because "I configured peering with Level3/Cogent" on my router, etc.  The difference is in the policy.  What you're speaking of is someone selling transit, which is perfectly fine over various IXes, you generally are prohibited from 'selling next-hop', i.e.: you have to bear the cost on the IX port of the forwarding.
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Correct, I meant to say private peering as opposed to settlement-free.


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> Buying transit isn't as dirty as people think it is, sometimes its the right business decision.  If you connect to an IX for $4000/mo at gig-e, you might as well buy transit at $4/meg on that same port IMHO.  You're unlikely to be using the port at 100% anyways at the IX, so your cost-per-meg there needs to properly reflect your 95% or whatnot.
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> - Jared
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I understand, I'm trying to factor in cost of peering (transport,
equipment, cross-connect, colocation, equipment cost) of buying transit
vs private peering.


regards,
/virendra

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