internet - sparkle

Wed May 16 19:52:24 UTC 2018

Hello,

Also Sparkle (AS6762) has a significant footprint in South America, I'd say
even bigger than Level 3 because they have mobile telco and broadband ISP
in Brazil.

I wouldn't worry much with latency in NA because at least in South America
they do hot potato (as everyone does) and all their PoPs exchange traffic
with at least Level 3. So I suspect traffic hardly ever exits their PoP
within their network.

Best regards,

Kurt Kraut

Em qua, 16 de mai de 2018 às 16:32, Jared Geiger <jared at compuwizz.net>
escreveu:

> If most of your traffic is for US based destinations, you might see worse
> performance since Sparkle doesn't seem to have many US POPs/Peering
> locations compared to Centurylink/Level3 or HE. You'd probably benefit more
> by pulling in some peering from Dallas than adding or replacing a transit
> provider as your current mix is decent for an eyeball network. Pick up
> peering with Cloudflare, Netflix, Amazon, EdgeCast, Facebook, Apple,
> Akamai, and Microsoft in Dallas and you might even be able to get rid of
> one of your transit providers.
>
> Sparkle would "shine" if you were a US hosting provider with many eyeballs
> in Europe/Africa/Middle East.
>
> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 11:34 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 16/May/18 16:54, Aaron Gould wrote:
> > > .written in 12/2015 - do y'all think this is accurate, and, in 2018, is
> > it
> > > still accurate ? (asking since my next question is related to Sparkle,
> > since
> > > they are listed in that previous article as a significant Internet
> > presence)
> >
> > I don't know about "owning" the Internet, but I would agree with the
> > article re: the 7 key global transit providers as things stand in 2018.
> >
> > It matches up with our own compliment of transit providers in our
> > network (AS37100).
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > My coworker just got back from ITW/Chicago and he is considering
> Sparkle
> > as
> > > an additional Internet provider for the ISP I work for in San Antonio,
> > TX .
> > > we would need to uplink to Sparkle in the central Texas area somehow.
> He
> > > mentioned that Sparkle may be in McAllen / Dallas and could possibly,
> in
> > the
> > > future be in Austin or San Antonio
> >
> > My initial experience with TI Sparkle was in South East Asia back in
> > '08. They were decent.
> >
> > We have them in our stable, and like them for their South American
> > coverage.
> >
> > Mark.
> >
>