Yes. If you are doing Gigs of traffic, peering make sense. Maybe even with a few 100mbps, depending on the capacity sold to customers.
But there can also be disadvantages with peering with host sites.... 1) Flooding. When they don't have a cost to you, they are more likely to flood you with their traffic. For example, taking away per session limts or more advertizing soliciation traffic. 2) Higher expense, if cross connect cost more than average data usage to them via your transit. For example, $10/mb transit, means must do 37mbps of data to the host to at a $370 cross connect charge. 3) More congestion if on a public peering switch (single cross conenct). 4) Slower speeds to the Peer, if only justify a lower capacity connection to peer. Forexample, a 100mbps transit link at 10% usage will perform at 90mbps to anyone, yet 10- 10mbps peers only get 10mbps max to each destination. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Hammett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Comcast will also be offering up to 50 Mbps > If you have a network of any real physical size (multiple states) and have > gigs and gigs of usage, you can peer with others. Many Web 2.0 networks > peer directly with the eyeball networks. > > > ---------- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom DeReggi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 6:54 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Comcast will also be offering up to 50 Mbps > > >> Reality of 50mbps. >> Well, they can do it eventually, anyone can that offers Fiber. >> The question is, how quickly do they want to give away their margin? and >> How quickly can they deploy? >> Thats the real questions, as long as their is an underserved market, >> WISPs >> have a future. >> How long would it take Comcast or CableVision to roll out Docsis3.0 >> available to all subscribers? >> And to all commercial tenant buildings? >> >> One of the things to remember is that most Cable companies buy transit, >> and are not actually a Tier1 themselves. >> How will that pan out for pricing? They get good rates as long as they >> are 95% Download traffic. >> I don't think the cable cos will control the business market, until they >> also own a significant portion of the server side market. >> >> I's ask another question... Who's more of a threat to Business WISPs? >> Fios >> or Cable Cos? >> >> Tom DeReggi >> RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc >> IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.1 - Release Date: 3/26/2008 > 12:00 AM > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
