Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-05-25 Thread joel jaeggli
On 5/23/15 10:23 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: Dave Taht dave.t...@gmail.com Two things I am curious about are 1) What is the measured benefit of moving a netflix server into your local ISP network and 2) does anyone measure cross town latency. If we lived in a

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-05-23 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Dave Taht dave.t...@gmail.com Two things I am curious about are 1) What is the measured benefit of moving a netflix server into your local ISP network and 2) does anyone measure cross town latency. If we lived in a world where skype/voip/etc transited the

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-05-21 Thread Rafael Possamai
James, curious to know... what size ISPs are they? In the last few years with the larger ones it has always been about lowering cost and increasing revenue, which throws the original idea of peering out the window (unless you are willing to pay). On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 4:52 AM, James Bensley

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-05-21 Thread Mike Hammett
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 7:40:23 AM Subject: Re: Peering and Network Cost James, curious to know... what size ISPs are they? In the last few years with the larger ones it has always been about lowering cost and increasing revenue, which throws the original idea of peering out the window

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-05-21 Thread James Bensley
On 17 April 2015 at 16:53, Justin Wilson - MTIN li...@mtin.net wrote: Peering and peering on an exchange are two different things. Peering at an exchange has several benefits other than the simple cost of transit. If you are in a large data center which charges fees for cross connects a

RE: Peering and Network Cost

2015-05-21 Thread Eric Dugas
but we're keeping our port for the connectivity improvement. Eric -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: May 21, 2015 8:50 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Peering and Network Cost As a small ISP, I'll peer with everybody

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-05-21 Thread Mark Tinka
On 21/May/15 18:59, Dave Taht wrote: Two things I am curious about are 1) What is the measured benefit of moving a netflix server into your local ISP network and 2) does anyone measure cross town latency. If we lived in a world where skype/voip/etc transited the local town only, what sort

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-05-21 Thread Anthony Kosednar
On Thursday, May 21, 2015, Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu wrote: On 21/May/15 18:59, Dave Taht wrote: Two things I am curious about are 1) What is the measured benefit of moving a netflix server into your local ISP network and 2) does anyone measure cross town latency. If we lived in

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-05-21 Thread James Bensley
On 21 May 2015 at 13:40, Rafael Possamai raf...@gav.ufsc.br wrote: James, curious to know... what size ISPs are they? In the last few years with the larger ones it has always been about lowering cost and increasing revenue, which throws the original idea of peering out the window (unless you

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-05-21 Thread Dave Taht
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Max Tulyev max...@netassist.ua wrote: Hi Roderick, transit cost is lowering close to peering cost, so it is doubghtful economy on small channels. If you don't live in Amsterdam/Frankfurt/London - add the DWDM cost from you to one of major IX. That's the

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-21 Thread Max Tulyev
That's generally good idea, but average TCP session speed depends not only your side of connection, but another side as well. On 18.04.15 07:58, Mark Tinka wrote: On 17/Apr/15 15:05, Max Tulyev wrote: One more interesting thing. If you buy IP transit, mostly you are paying by exact

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-21 Thread Mark Tinka
On 21/Apr/15 19:37, Max Tulyev wrote: That's generally good idea, but average TCP session speed depends not only your side of connection, but another side as well. It was always best effort :-). Mark.

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-21 Thread Max Tulyev
Choose another IX to peer. Or even make your own ;) Kiev have 3 major IXes, and price is about $100 for 10GE port. On 19.04.15 12:23, Baldur Norddahl wrote: So why is IX peering so expensive? Again if I look at my local IX (dix.dk) they have about 40 networks connected. Each network pays

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-21 Thread Mark Tinka
On 21/Apr/15 11:58, Max Tulyev wrote: Choose another IX to peer. Or even make your own ;) Kiev have 3 major IXes, and price is about $100 for 10GE port. Switch port costs will be governed by how the exchange point is run. Low or no running costs will, theoretically, yield cheaper ports.

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-20 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Apr 19, 2015, at 2:34 PM, Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu wrote: The age of the Ethernet switch has little to do with its performance, unless it has everything to do with its performance. Mark, you realize that this is what NANOG will make sure is engraved on your headstone, right?

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-20 Thread Mark Tinka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/Apr/15 08:32, Bill Woodcock wrote: Mark, you realize that this is what NANOG will make sure is engraved on your headstone, right? Only if I expire :-)... Mark. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-19 Thread Baldur Norddahl
So why is IX peering so expensive? Again if I look at my local IX (dix.dk) they have about 40 networks connected. Each network pays minimum 5800 USD a year. That gives them a budget of 24+ USD a year. But the only service is running an old layer 2 switch. Why do these guys deserve to be

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-19 Thread William Waites
On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 11:23:53 +0200, Baldur Norddahl baldur.nordd...@gmail.com said: So why is IX peering so expensive? But the only service is running an old layer 2 switch. The 40 dix particants should donate 1000 USD once and get a new layer 2 switch. Why does that not

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-19 Thread Mike Hammett
: Sunday, April 19, 2015 4:23:53 AM Subject: Re: Peering and Network Cost So why is IX peering so expensive? Again if I look at my local IX (dix.dk) they have about 40 networks connected. Each network pays minimum 5800 USD a year. That gives them a budget of 24+ USD a year. But the only

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-19 Thread Mark Tinka
On 19/Apr/15 11:23, Baldur Norddahl wrote: So why is IX peering so expensive? Again if I look at my local IX (dix.dk) they have about 40 networks connected. Each network pays minimum 5800 USD a year. That gives them a budget of 24+ USD a year. But the only service is running an old

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-19 Thread Jason Lixfeld
On Apr 19, 2015, at 6:09 AM, William Waites wwai...@tardis.ed.ac.uk wrote: On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 11:23:53 +0200, Baldur Norddahl baldur.nordd...@gmail.com said: So why is IX peering so expensive? But the only service is running an old layer 2 switch. The 40 dix particants should

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-19 Thread Jay Hanke
, 2015 4:23:53 AM Subject: Re: Peering and Network Cost So why is IX peering so expensive? Again if I look at my local IX (dix.dk) they have about 40 networks connected. Each network pays minimum 5800 USD a year. That gives them a budget of 24+ USD a year. But the only service is running

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-17 Thread Max Tulyev
One more interesting thing. If you buy IP transit, mostly you are paying by exact bandwidth, per megabit. If you buy IX peering port, you are paying for port. This means Tranist ports are overloaded or close to it, while IX ports usually always have some extra free capacity. In practice, this

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-17 Thread Max Tulyev
:33:35 PM Subject: Re: Peering and Network Cost Very true. I left it as I did given that I expect a similar profile from others in North America... on NANOG. Basically, wherever your region's streaming video or application updates come from. ;-) - Mike Hammett

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-17 Thread Max Tulyev
For sure, that's the main reason of peering, not a cost saving ;) On 04/15/15 23:12, Grzegorz Janoszka wrote: Please keep in mind that some companies peer despite it offers no savings for them and at the end of the day it might be even more expensive. They do it because of performance and

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-17 Thread Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Max Tulyev max...@netassist.ua To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 5:33:04 AM Subject: Re: Peering and Network Cost If you have so much difference in price of IX connectivity (in general

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-17 Thread Mark Tinka
On 16/Apr/15 17:10, Edward Dore wrote: I don't have any quantifiable data on what has happened to IP transit costs over the same period, but for a point comparison I'd say that off the top of my head you can get a 1G CDR on a 10G port from a tier-1 provider in London for approximately the

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-17 Thread Mike Hammett
Hammett na...@ics-il.net To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 6:51:09 AM Subject: Re: Peering and Network Cost Transit should cost more than peering and should never cost little more than the cost of a cross connect or a switch, given the load of additional responsibilities. I

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-17 Thread Justin Wilson - MTIN
Peering and peering on an exchange are two different things. Peering at an exchange has several benefits other than the simple cost of transit. If you are in a large data center which charges fees for cross connects a single cross connect to an exchange can save you money. Peering can also

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-17 Thread Mark Tinka
On 17/Apr/15 15:05, Max Tulyev wrote: One more interesting thing. If you buy IP transit, mostly you are paying by exact bandwidth, per megabit. If you buy IX peering port, you are paying for port. This means Tranist ports are overloaded or close to it, while IX ports usually always have

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-16 Thread Mark Tinka
On 16/Apr/15 07:25, Tore Anderson wrote: We're in a similar situation here; transit prices has come down so much in recent years (while IX fees are indeed stagnant) that I am certain that if I were to cut all peering and buy everything from a regional tier-2 instead, I'd be lowering my total

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-16 Thread Mark Tinka
On 15/Apr/15 22:07, Baldur Norddahl wrote: Transit cost is down but IX cost remains the same. Therefore IX is longer cost effective for a small ISP. As an (non US) example, here in Copenhagen, Denmark we have two internet exchanges DIX and Netnod. We also have many major transit providers,

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-16 Thread Tore Anderson
* Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu On 16/Apr/15 07:25, Tore Anderson wrote: We're in a similar situation here; transit prices has come down so much in recent years (while IX fees are indeed stagnant) that I am certain that if I were to cut all peering and buy everything from a regional

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-16 Thread Mark Tinka
On 15/Apr/15 22:12, Grzegorz Janoszka wrote: Please keep in mind that some companies peer despite it offers no savings for them and at the end of the day it might be even more expensive. They do it because of performance and reliability reasons. And also to reduce AS hops. If you and

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-16 Thread Mike Hammett
Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:00:53 AM Subject: Re: Peering and Network Cost * Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu On 16/Apr/15 07:25, Tore Anderson wrote: We're in a similar situation here; transit prices has come down so much in recent years (while IX fees are indeed

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-16 Thread Edward Dore
On 16 Apr 2015, at 08:00, Tore Anderson t...@fud.no wrote: * Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu On 16/Apr/15 07:25, Tore Anderson wrote: We're in a similar situation here; transit prices has come down so much in recent years (while IX fees are indeed stagnant) that I am certain that if I were

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-16 Thread Mark Tinka
On 16/Apr/15 09:00, Tore Anderson wrote: You appear to be assuming that an IP transit port is more expensive then an IXP port with the same speed. That doesn't seem to always be the case anymore, at least not in all parts of the world, and I expect this trend to continue - transit prices

Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-15 Thread Rod Beck
Hi, As you all know, transit costs in the wholesale market today a few percent of what it did in 2000. I assume that most of that decline is due to a modified version of Moore's Law (I don't believe optics costs decline 50% every 18 months) and the advent of maverick players like Cogent that

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-15 Thread Max Tulyev
Hi Roderick, transit cost is lowering close to peering cost, so it is doubghtful economy on small channels. If you don't live in Amsterdam/Frankfurt/London - add the DWDM cost from you to one of major IX. That's the magic. In large scale peering is still efficient. It is efficient on local

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-15 Thread Mike Hammett
://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Max Tulyev max...@netassist.ua To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 12:50:41 PM Subject: Re: Peering and Network Cost Hi Roderick, transit cost is lowering close to peering cost, so it is doubghtful economy on small

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-15 Thread Mike Hammett
PM Subject: Re: Peering and Network Cost Very true. I left it as I did given that I expect a similar profile from others in North America... on NANOG. Basically, wherever your region's streaming video or application updates come from. ;-) - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-15 Thread Max Tulyev
-il.com - Original Message - From: Max Tulyev max...@netassist.ua To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 12:50:41 PM Subject: Re: Peering and Network Cost Hi Roderick, transit cost is lowering close to peering cost, so it is doubghtful economy on small

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-15 Thread Mike Hammett
- Original Message - From: Max Tulyev max...@netassist.ua To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 1:27:45 PM Subject: Re: Peering and Network Cost Not actually Facebook net, but Akamai CDN. Not a Google (peer), but GCC node ;) It is varying from location to location. For example

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-15 Thread Scott Whyte
On 4/15/15 07:28, Rod Beck wrote: Hi, As you all know, transit costs in the wholesale market today a few percent of what it did in 2000. I assume that most of that decline is due to a modified version of Moore's Law (I don't believe optics costs decline 50% every 18 months) and the advent of

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-15 Thread Baldur Norddahl
Transit cost is down but IX cost remains the same. Therefore IX is longer cost effective for a small ISP. As an (non US) example, here in Copenhagen, Denmark we have two internet exchanges DIX and Netnod. We also have many major transit providers, including Hurricane Electric and Cogent. Netnod

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-15 Thread Grzegorz Janoszka
On 2015-04-15 19:50, Max Tulyev wrote: transit cost is lowering close to peering cost, so it is doubghtful economy on small channels. If you don't live in Amsterdam/Frankfurt/London - add the DWDM cost from you to one of major IX. That's the magic. In large scale peering is still efficient. It

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-15 Thread Mike Hammett
: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 3:07:52 PM Subject: Re: Peering and Network Cost Transit cost is down but IX cost remains the same. Therefore IX is longer cost effective for a small ISP. As an (non US) example, here in Copenhagen, Denmark we have two internet exchanges DIX and Netnod. We also have many

RE: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-15 Thread Siegel, David
-utilization interconnect ports are typical for them. -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 12:45 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Peering and Network Cost (Reply to thread, not necessarily myself

Re: Peering and Network Cost

2015-04-15 Thread Tore Anderson
* Baldur Norddahl baldur.nordd...@gmail.com Transit cost is down but IX cost remains the same. Therefore IX is longer cost effective for a small ISP. As an (non US) example, here in Copenhagen, Denmark we have two internet exchanges DIX and Netnod. We also have many major transit providers,