On Wednesday 02 August 2006 07:25, Mikisa Richard wrote: > Mark Tinka wrote: > >On Tuesday 01 August 2006 12:55, Richard Mikisa wrote: > >>Now that you metion ... > >> > >>Bushnet is already peering with Africa Online, SpaceNet and > >>One2net outside the IX. > > > >If I understand the previous posts on this setup, these links > > are generally being used for connectivity to Internet > > upstreams via BushNet, correct? > > > >Mark. > > Upstream yes, but first they peer and only the accepted > prefixes are then advertised upstream.
Okay - because depending on how these "members" would view their connectivity to BushNet, where they terminate the circuit in their backbone is of importance. In the past, I thought terminating exchange point links on border routers was a good idea (save bandwidth, sell people local bandwidth, e.t.c.), but then, with local links becoming faster and cheaper, I saw little reason to terminate such a link where it would be part of my default bandwidth management policy. So, bringing it closer to the core makes more sense (preferrably, on a dedicated exchange point peering router, if possible). If you sell a granular service, you could use QoS (and MPLS QoS/TE) at the edge of your network. If such a consideration were made, I'd see a conflict of interest in link termination - but, it wouldn't be a show-stopper :). > My point however is > that there's a decent alternative to the present location of > the IX. It's at Crested Towers with Spacenet and I have it > from reliable sources that the IX can be happily hosted there. This is a good idea - can we use the opportunity to ask SpaceNet build a switched Ethernet network for connecting members? Cheers, Mark.
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