Matt does have a little bigger network than a lot of us. ;-)
https://www.peeringdb.com/private/participant_view.php?id=724 How'd you get the Microsoft peer and what all sits on that? I know their XBox downloads are on Limelight, but perhaps their others are on their own AS. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Matt Liotta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 8:52 AM To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] CDN peering > 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: 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/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
