I think you missed what McTim was saying. Orange is receiving ~30Mbps from the GGC at UTL. Orange is not using this ~30Mbps on its own transit connection, but still pays for it even if its unused. UTL on the other hand, have increased their transit traffic a few notches in Mpbs thanks to the requests coming from Orange to the GGC at UTL.
Segment the analysis of the service delivery and it will make sense tier 1 provider -> Orange -> Customers It does not matter if Orange get some 30 odd Mbps from UTL at the UIXP, they will still PAY the tier 1 provider for whatever bandwidth they signed up for. MTN may have refused this kind of setup because when it was put forward, they were still on satellite and no fibre in sight. Increasing your satellite traffic by 30Mbps would offset you a few tens of thousand of dollars. UTL may have foreseen the advantage of having it and waiting for the fibre connectivity to get here and use that as leverage. Orange wanted it, they asked for it, they got it... if the other peers were ignorant to this or arrogant about it, don't blame anyone else. On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Reinier Battenberg < [email protected]> wrote: > AFAIK, they dont. The deal with the Google cache is that you may host it, > and you then are obliged to give other peers in your country free access. > > That is why the MTN cache is slightly different (because of the sms stuff > they also had going) and MTN never gave anyone access to their cache. > > Its probably also the reason why it took 3 years to have the first ISP use > the UIXP to get access to a cache. > > -- > > rgds, > > Reinier Battenberg > > Director > > Mountbatten Ltd. > > +256 758 801 749 > > www.mountbatten.net > > On Tuesday 18 January 2011 10:57:58 McTim wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Reinier Battenberg > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > UIXP traffic is free (AFAIK), and Orange is selling it to their clients > > > > at 250USD/Mbs at least to their clients. > > > > > > I see what you mean now. However, it's not as cut and dried as that. > > > They pay someone (or multiple someones) for transit. that's not free. > > > The fact that they are getting ~30 Mbps from the GGC means that this > > > traffic will be delivered faster to their customers than from transit > > > links. It doesn't mean that they are paying for 30Mb/s less transit > > > however. It's just 30Mbps less transit than they are using. Make > > > sense? > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by *MailScanner* <http://www.mailscanner.info/>, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in > any way. > -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ------------------------------------------------------------ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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