We peer with every major content network. Most have open peering policies that require little to get a peering relationship. Some require specific amounts of traffic and/or multiple geographically diverse connections.
Before you get your hopes up though I will warn you that connecting to peering fabrics has gotten expensive, while the price of transit has gotten cheap. For example, the most important peering fabric in the US is at Equinix Ashburn. Last quote I saw for peering ports was $1,500 for 100Mbps and $3,000 for 1Gbps. Forgetting all the costs associated with getting into Ashburn, you would need 100Mbps of peer traffic just to get the cost of the peer traffic down to $15 per meg, which is higher than most carriers will sell you a 100Mbps of transit at Ashburn. In other words, unless you are doing 100s of megs of peering traffic, transit is cheaper. -Matt On Dec 8, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Patrick Shoemaker wrote: > With all the talk of Netflix and other bandwidth-intensive streaming > applications that are on the horizon, has anyone here looked into > peering with any of the major CDNs to reduce transit costs? I seem to > remember hearing that Akamai would colo a box within an ISP's > network at > no cost to the ISP if there was enough (bandwidth) demand. Anyone know > if Limelight will do something similar? I'm guessing that most of us > are > not big enough for this to be financially feasible, but for those who > are, it seems that there could be some major savings. My 100% business > customer base tends to use a lot of bandwidth from Youtube and > streaming > radio. A direct connection to Limelight would cut down on transit > costs > big time. > > -- > Patrick Shoemaker > Vector Data Systems LLC > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > office: (301) 358-1690 x36 > http://www.vectordatasystems.com > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > 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: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
