COVID-19 vs. peering wars

Fri Mar 20 19:31:21 UTC 2020

I'm curious;
would people say that fixing peering inefficiencies could have
a bigger impact on service performance than asking that
Netflix, Amazon Prime, Youtube, Hulu, and other video
streaming services cut their bit rates down?

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51968302
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/netflix-and-youtube-cut-streaming-quality-in-europe-to-handle-pandemic/

It seems that perhaps the fingers, and the regulatory
hammer, are being pointed in the wrong direction at
the moment.  ^_^;

Matt
staying safely under the saran-wrap blanket for the next few weeks

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 9:31 AM Adam Thompson <athompson at merlin.mb.ca>
wrote:

> Every large ISP does this (or rather, doesn't) at every IX in Canada.
> Bell isn't unique by any stretch.
>
> It's not in their economic interest to peer at a local IX, because from
> their perspective, the IX takes away business (Managed L2 point-to-point
> circuits, at the very least) from them.
>
> Don't expect the dominant wireline ISP(s) in any region to join local IXes
> anytime soon, sadly, no matter how much it would benefit their customers.
> After all, the customer is always free to purchase service to the IX and
> join the IX, right???  *grumble*
>
> In my local case, if BellMTS joined MBIX, un-cached DNS resolution times
> could potentially drop by 15msec.  That's HUGE.  But the end-user
> experience is not their primary goal.  Their primary goal is profit, as
> always.
>
> -Adam Thompson
>  Founding member, MBIX (once upon a time)
>
> Adam Thompson
> Consultant, Infrastructure Services
> MERLIN
> 100 - 135 Innovation Drive
> Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8
> (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only)
> athompson at merlin.mb.ca
> www.merlin.mb.ca
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: NANOG <nanog-bounces at nanog.org> On Behalf Of Sadiq Saif
> > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 9:38 AM
> > To: nanog at nanog.org
> > Subject: Re: COVID-19 vs. peering wars
> >
> > On Fri, 20 Mar 2020, at 10:31, Steve Mikulasik via NANOG wrote:
> > >
> > > In Canada the CRTC really needs to get on Canadian ISPs about peering
> > > very liberally at IXs in each province. I know of one major
> > > institution right now that would have a major work from home issue
> > > resolved if one big ISP would peer with one big tier 1 in the IX they
> > > are both located at in the same province. Instead traffic needs to
> > > flow across the country or to the USA to get back to the same city.
> >
> > **cough** Bell Canada **cough**.
> >
> > --
> >   Sadiq Saif
> >   https://sadiqsaif.com/
>
>
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