Microsoft is pretty open to peering. Additionally, they participate in Any2Easy (http://www.crgwest.com/Any2Exchange/any2easy.html), which is a multi-lateral peering service at CRG West facilities. If you don't have a lot of traffic multi-lateral peering is a must as it will get you connected to more networks than you could normally qualify for.
Again, I think you'll find that unless you are doing 100s of megs peering is not economical. Transit is really cheap now. -Matt On Dec 8, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: > 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" <[email protected]> > 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: [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/ >> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
