Mark Tinka wrote:
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.
Connectivity to Bushnet is not what is proposed here ... just mentioned
because it already is peering with a couple of ISP already outside the
IX. The peering is not done at the border router FYI. SpaceNet seems
ideal because of the availability of fiber circuit terminations from
SpaceNet and MTN in the building. The IX would then be in a proper NOC
environment with AC and the whole shebang. Well, we then can take it
from there ..
--
Richard
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