Hi, John Bourke wrote: > We are about to take receipt of a stream of satellite image data at a > rate 150Mbps, growing to 600Mbps over the next four years. [...] > As we only have a mandate to distribute to the UK, I am thinking that > I can just peer with UK ISPs and deliver the data to their customers.
I don't know whether "just peer" means "exclusively peer", or whether it means "simply peer" in this context. :-) Simple might be stretching it -- Peering is a commercial relationship between two organisations that (should) expect mutual/roughly equal, and these days a more significant monetary benefit. A single service and specialist content originator is likely to find it hard to reach the commercial expectations of some access networks in the UK. That said, there's a human element to any peering decision too, and your product sounds really cool so you will likely get some sessions on the basis that we're all nerds and SATELLITES ARE WAY COOL. Do you have a service now that is basically what you'd do on day one ? I have all manner of scripts at the office that can neatly predict inter-network traffic flow that I'd be happy to run on logs that you have. Essentially because I'm a nerd and as previously established... SATELLITES ARE WAY COOL. Another note - It is likely to be significantly cheaper to try to avoid having to lay large capacity into London from Harwell, e.g. by serving content out of racks in region and populating/feeding the data cache on smaller links from your office for example. IOW, run the fatter pipes the shortest distance. Andy -- Regards, Andy Davidson <[email protected]> CTO || Allegro Networks UK www.allegro.net || Connectivity You Control
