Bill, What does Bell buying MTS do? Does it change your statement or will the MTS portion of Bell still peer locally?
Tom > On Aug 8, 2017, at 8:10 PM, Bill Woodcock <wo...@pch.net> wrote: > > >> On Jul 20, 2017, at 7:01 AM, Hiers, David <david.hi...@cdk.com> wrote: >> For traffic routing, is anyone constraining cross-border routing between >> Canada and the US? IOW, if you are routing from Toronto to Montreal, do you >> have to guarantee that the path cannot go through, say, Syracuse, New York? > > No. In fact, Bell Canada / Bell Aliant and Telus guarantee that you _will_ > go through Chicago, Seattle, New York, or Ashburn, since none of them peer > anywhere in Canada at all. > > Last I checked (November of last year) the best-connected commercial networks > (i.e. not CANARIE) in Canada were Hurricane Electric, MTS Allstream, Primus, > and Zip Telecom, all of which peer at three or more Canadian IXes. So, > they’re capable of keeping traffic in Canada so long as the other end isn’t > on Bell or Telus, which only sell U.S. bandwidth to Canadians. > > In November, only 27% of intra-Canadian routes stayed within Canada; 64% went > through the U.S. That’s way worse than five years ago, when 60% stayed > within Canada, and 38% went through the U.S. > > As has been pointed out, Canada has been building IXPs… Just not as fast as > the rest of the world has. They’re behind the global average growth rate, > and behind the U.S. growth rate, which is why the problem is getting worse. > Bandwidth costs are falling faster elsewhere, so they’re importing more > foreign bandwidth. > > -Bill > > > >
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