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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We had Akamai servers in our data center for many years until a couple years ago, when they said they�d changed their policies and decommissioned the servers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I understand that, maintaining many server sites and being responsible for that hardware, even if you pay nothing for power or collocation, must be costly. And at the time, we didn�t have much traffic to them.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Today, however, we�re hitting 6 Gbps with them nightly. Not sure what traffic it is they�re hosting but it�s surely video of some sort.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are in the same data center with them, Edgeconnex Denver, and they refuse to peer because they say their minimum traffic level for peering is 30 Gbps.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Their peeringdb entry says �open peering�, and in my book that�s not open peering.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So this seems to be exactly backward from where every other major content provider is going � free peering with as many eyeball networks as possible.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Google � no bandwidth minimum, and, they cover costs on 1<sup>st</sup> and every other cross connect<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Amazon � peers are two Denver IX<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Apple � peers at two Denver IX<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Netflix � free peering everywhere<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And, on top of that, Akamai is not at either of the two Denver exchange points, which push together probably half a terabit of traffic.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What is the financial model for Akamai to restrict peering this way? Surely it�s not the 10G ports and optics, which are cheap as dirt these days.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Doesn�t this policy encourage eyeballs to move this traffic to their cheapest possible transit links, with a potential degradation of service for Akamai�s content customers?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for the insight,<o:p></o:p></p>
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