internet - sparkle

Jared Geiger jared at compuwizz.net
Wed May 16 23:41:56 UTC 2018


I assumed your AS number is 16527 and looked up who you currently are
peering with.

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 2:35 PM, Aaron Gould <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:

> Thanks.
>
> What's an eyeball network ?
>
> How do you know my "current mix is decent" ?
>
> Btw, I have onsite the cdn's aanp, ggc, oca, fna, so only about ~60% of my
> customer traffic is from Internet uplinks...  ~40% is served from local
> cdn's
>
>
> Aaron
>
> > On May 16, 2018, at 2:31 PM, Jared Geiger <jared at compuwizz.net> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
>



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