On Tue 2016-Jan-26 13:30:41 -0600, Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote:

Google or Facebook are exactly who you would want to connect with and I'm 
fairly sure they're on the route servers.

...and have open peering policies with pretty low requirements.

https://peering.google.com/about/peering_policy.html
https://www.facebook.com/peering/

Gist:

Google (in NA and EU) asks for >100 mbps peak for bilateral peering, but are on route servers where present and are happy to dish out & pick up routes that way for anyone not pushing enough bits for direct sessions.

Facebook wants >50 mbps peak for bilateral peering, though I don't see them on route servers at e.g. the SIX.

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(also on Signal)

Other than driving additional revenue by needing to buy ports to both or 
possible regulatory concerns, I'm not sure why these companies spin up an 
exchange for every new fad that comes along. They all just boil down to an 
Ethernet fabric.




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Mike Hammett
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