What is peering? Yours,
Michael Munger, dCAP 404-438-2128 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Davidson Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 5:21 PM To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] IAX trunking in china On 8 Feb 2008, at 20:50, Nitzan Kon wrote: > --- Andy Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes, but depending on the structure of your network, at such >> facilities you can regularly attain settlement-free exchange of >> internet traffic with networks you have significant data to. > What incentive would they have to do that though? If it passes on > their networks it costs them money, yet as a VoIP provider I don't > have any routes they can pass to free of charge too. You've got *your* routes, which could represent enough data to warrant settlement free interconnection. e.g. Facebook (on peeringdb) claim 5-10Gbit of traffic. Yahoo 100Gbps plus. They can only offer their routes, but ISPs are regularly happy to peer because it represents enough traffic to be worthwhile. Peering also (usually) reduces latency between end users and content, which improves performance for mutual customers. Data passing on an ISP networks may cost the network some money, but it only exists on their network because they're billing someone, and letting them dump traffic onto the network :-) They have the option of passing it to a peer for free, or passing it on to an upstream ISP for cash. The economics that dictate what's viable are very involved, but if you're growing it's worth trying to understand them. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
