Hi,

There are some designs with their pros and cons.

1)
uplink/IX  uplink/IX
    |        |
    CR1 -- CR2
     |      |
     |      |
     |      |
     |      |
    AS1 -- AS2
     |      |
customer1  customer2

        OR
2)
uplink/IX  uplink/IX
    |        |
    CR1     CR2
      \     /
       \   /
        DS1
       /   \
      /     \
    AS1     AS2
     |       |
customer1    customer2

1)
Every customer has his active(C1-AS1-CR1)  and backup BGP session 
(C1-AS1-AS2-CR2). For C2 - vice versa.
In that case you have to provide enough capacity:
1) between AS1 and AS2 and at the other hand
2) between CR1/2-uplink/IX

2)

Every customer has his active(C1-AS1-DS1-CR1)  and backup BGP session 
(C1-AS1-DS1-CR2).
In that case you have to provide:
1) Distribution Switch (DS1)
2)enough capacity  between CR1/2-uplink/IX

As I said earlier - there are pros and cons with these 2 designs :)

Best~

On 5/31/2011 1:21 PM, Nikolay Shopik wrote:
Hey everyone,

I would like to hear what are best practices when interconnecting downlinks. We are small transit ISP, right now we are in middle of network upgrade, and I would like to make network more redundant so it less affect our downlinks when we having planed/unplanned maintenance.

Right now we have two borders 7201 and 7206 with 3 uplinks and 2 local IX. And we terminate BGP session for downlinks at one of border, no bgp multihop, all downlinks receive bgp full-view.

Thoughts, suggestions?
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