Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-11-03 Thread Andy Davidson
On 31 Oct 2008, at 16:56, Paul Stewart wrote: Why does the controversy word keep coming up? You're the third personnow to ask if I was trying to provide controversy and for the third time, NO I AM NOT. Hi, I have no intention of fanning the fire, but I can explain the controversy

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-11-03 Thread Andy Davidson
On 31 Oct 2008, at 16:56, Paul Stewart wrote: Why does the controversy word keep coming up? You're the third personnow to ask if I was trying to provide controversy and for the third time, NO I AM NOT. Hi, I have no intention of fanning the fire, but I can explain the controversy

RE: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Stewart
Hi there... We've done the financial study and we've taken great lengths in netflow analysis to do estimated traffic flows at each peering location etc. This was factored before I posted and as I mentioned in an earlier posting - the cost element is pretty much addressed already with our

RE: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Stewart
-Original Message- From: Tomas L. Byrnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 30, 2008 10:34 PM To: vijay gill; Paul Stewart Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Peering - Benefits? As with all things, this isn't so cut and dried as everyone makes it seem. The OP was asking for an easy

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 Oct 2008, at 13:03, HRH Sven Olaf Prinz von CyberBunker-Kamphuis MP wrote: (the amsix with their many outages and connected parties that rely primarliy on it's functionality is a prime example here) I run

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Vixie
Paul Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... My question was meant at a much higher level - a level where costs are equal for peering/transit and all the technical and the financial homework has been done already now I'm the stage of one last meeting with top level management to explain

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-31 Thread Steven King
My company will be peering with two other SPs in the area purely for business strategic purposes. It turns out that at least one of these SPs owns the fiber running to the first CO in our transit back to Chicago. So it helps to be buddies with these companies. Paul Vixie wrote: Paul Stewart

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-31 Thread Marshall Eubanks
:34 PM To: vijay gill; Paul Stewart Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Peering - Benefits? As with all things, this isn't so cut and dried as everyone makes it seem. The OP was asking for an easy answer to a complex question, which usually shows a lack of understanding of the issues

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-31 Thread Joe Malcolm
vijay gill writes: This is probably going to be a somewhat unpopular opinion, mostly because people cannot figure out their COGS. If you can get transit for cheaper than your COGS, you are better off buying transit and not peering. There are some small arguments to be made for latency and

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Matthew Moyle-Croft
Joe Provo wrote: A couple to add: - failure scoping: issues on a remote network can be better isolated from the rest of your traffic (or completely if it is the peer). Related to this is ability to contact the right people more quickly. If you've got a problem with/on someone's

RE: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Stewart
@nanog.org Subject: RE: Peering - Benefits? internet exchanges are not per-se redundant they basically are a switch which actually, because of the many connected parties, most of which do not have enough PAID transit to cover any outages on it, causes more problems than they are good for. (the amsix

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Will Hargrave
HRH Sven Olaf Prinz von CyberBunker-Kamphuis MP wrote: as for peering agreements, just implement an open peering policy (doesn't nessesarily have to take place over an ix, also applies to pieces of ethernet running from your network to others). those basically are contracts that force

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Andy Davidson
On 30 Oct 2008, at 13:03, HRH Sven Olaf Prinz von CyberBunker-Kamphuis MP wrote: internet exchanges are not per-se redundant Those networks who *choose* connect to peers via a single fabric, in a single location, will suffer a similar fate to those networks who single home to

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Adam Armstrong
] Sent: October 29, 2008 6:22 PM To: Paul Stewart Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Peering - Benefits? It would only be a redundant connection if the AS your peering with is a transit AS. The AS that I work with is a stub AS and can not function as a fully redundant link. Just

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Will Hargrave
Paul Stewart wrote: We have multiple transit providers today and are already present on a couple of smaller peering exchanges with an open peering policy... our experience with them has been very positive. As an IX operator I'm glad to hear it :-) The redundancy perspective is that you now

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Adam Armstrong
HRH Sven Olaf Prinz von CyberBunker-Kamphuis MP wrote: internet exchanges are not per-se redundant they basically are a switch which actually, because of the many connected parties, most of which do not have enough PAID transit to cover any outages on it, causes more problems than they are good

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:- HRH == HRH Sven Olaf Prinz von CyberBunker-Kamphuis MP [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: internet exchanges are not per-se redundant depends on your concept of redundancy. they basically are a switch which actually, because of the many connected parties, most of which do not

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Todd Underwood
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 01:03:55PM +, HRH Sven Olaf Prinz von CyberBunker-Kamphuis MP wrote: (the amsix with their many outages and connected parties that rely primarliy on it's functionality is a prime example here) internet exchanges usually are some sort of hobby computer club, you

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 30, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Todd Underwood wrote: so far there have been some good values articulated and there may be more (reach, latency, diversity of path, diversity of capacity, control, flexibility, options, price negotation) and some additional costs have been mentioned (capex for

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
with no loss of redundancy. Plus you get all the other things peering is good for. -- TTFN, patrick -Original Message- From: Patrick W. Gilmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:15 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Peering - Benefits? On Oct 30, 2008, at 10:49 AM

RE: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Stewart
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:06 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Peering - Benefits? On Oct 30, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Paul Stewart wrote: Thanks for playing devil's advocate... I am truly trying to cover both sides of the discussion - technically it's what we want for sure

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread vijay gill
This is probably going to be a somewhat unpopular opinion, mostly because people cannot figure out their COGS. If you can get transit for cheaper than your COGS, you are better off buying transit and not peering. There are some small arguments to be made for latency and 'cheap/free' peering if

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 30, 2008, at 10:19 PM, vijay gill wrote: This is probably going to be a somewhat unpopular opinion, mostly because people cannot figure out their COGS. If you can get transit for cheaper than your COGS, you are better off buying transit and not peering. There are some small arguments to

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread vijay gill
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 30, 2008, at 10:19 PM, vijay gill wrote: This is probably going to be a somewhat unpopular opinion, mostly because people cannot figure out their COGS. If you can get transit for cheaper than your COGS, you

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Randy Bush
The point is if you are building out specifically to peer, the effort is not worth it if you are not operating at scale, ^ probably i can think of situations where there may be very low cost to build-out to peer. but they are unusual. and if you are operating at scale, you are not going

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:05 AM, vijay gill wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 30, 2008, at 10:19 PM, vijay gill wrote: This is probably going to be a somewhat unpopular opinion, mostly because people cannot figure out their COGS. If you

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread vijay gill
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:05 AM, vijay gill wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 30, 2008, at 10:19 PM, vijay gill wrote: This is probably going to be a somewhat

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:17:45 EDT, Paul Stewart said: I can think of some but looking to develop a concrete list of appealing reasons etc. such as: -control over routing between networks -security aspect (being able to filter/verify routes to some degree) -latency/performance I'm surprised

RE: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-29 Thread Paul Stewart
Thanks! That's a really good one and surprised myself I missed it..;) _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:28 PM To: Paul Stewart Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Peering - Benefits? * PGP Signed

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-29 Thread Steven King
it..;) _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:28 PM To: Paul Stewart Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Peering - Benefits? * PGP Signed by an unknown key On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:17:45 EDT, Paul Stewart

RE: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-29 Thread Paul Stewart
-Original Message- From: Steven King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 29, 2008 6:22 PM To: Paul Stewart Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Peering - Benefits? It would only be a redundant connection if the AS your peering with is a transit AS. The AS that I work

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-29 Thread Steven King
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 29, 2008 6:22 PM To: Paul Stewart Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Peering - Benefits? It would only be a redundant connection if the AS your peering with is a transit AS. The AS that I work with is a stub AS and can not function

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-29 Thread isabel dias
of the )transit connection(s). Why don't you just go privatly? --- On Wed, 10/29/08, Steven King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Steven King [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Peering - Benefits? To: Paul Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: nanog@nanog.org Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 11:22 PM It would

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-29 Thread Randy Bush
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Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-29 Thread Joe Provo
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:28:04PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:17:45 EDT, Paul Stewart said: I can think of some but looking to develop a concrete list of appealing reasons etc. such as: -control over routing between networks -security aspect (being able to