Joining the IX is so that the bulk of your traffic gets peered off quickly and cheaply. FL-IX has all of the big players, so if your traffic is primarily residential, I'd expect 2/3rds of it to go to the IX. Google, Twitch, Yahoo, Akamai, Amazon, Facebook, Fastly, Highwinds, Hurricane Electric, Limelight, Microsoft, Netflix are the big traffic networks there.
For the remainder of your traffic, you'll need some flow tools to figure out where it goes. Kentik, pmacct, vFlow (new to me as of yesterday, developed by EdgeCast), etc. are all the types of products that will help you figure out where you're going and how it's getting there. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul McCall" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 11:38:39 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] GTT as a Tier 1 provider - feedback? I am going to join FL-IX, but how will that help me know my traffic if my carrier doesn't flow through there? IX was mainly for Netflix to start From: Af [[email protected]] on behalf of Mike Hammett [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 12:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] GTT as a Tier 1 provider - feedback? I know you know this, Canadian Paul. More meant for the rest of the list. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 11:29:04 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] GTT as a Tier 1 provider - feedback? Peering first. Join an IX or get direct peers. Then run flow analysis tools to determine what ASes get you closest to the destinations of most of your traffic. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stewart" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 10:09:41 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] GTT as a Tier 1 provider - feedback? Just in the process of dropping them from our mix … however …. they have always been solid provider with very little issues. How they get utilized in the network and participate in your overall mix is always a challenge .. I much prefer to avoid Tier1 providers in general to be honest - prefer Tier2 in comparison. They don’t “play well” in our mix of providers hence why we are dropping them. The only area of failure is calling them to say we won’t be renewing followed by “ok, no problem - thank you” …. usually this turns into heavy sales tactics to keep you onboard - they didn’t seem to care…. Paul On May 16, 2017, at 10:36 AM, Paul McCall < [email protected] > wrote: Looking at bandwidth options in Miami. Investigating GTT today. Anybody, besides Faisal 😊 , have any feedback on them ? (Faisal speaks highly of them) Paul Paul McCall, President PDMNet, Inc. / Florida Broadband, Inc. 658 Old Dixie Highway Vero Beach, FL 32962 772-564-6800 [email protected] www.pdmnet.com www.floridabroadband.com
