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Re: a question about the economics of peering
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () gitoyen net>
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 14:18:14 +0100
On Friday 30 November 2001, at 11 h 52, Alex Rubenstein <alex () nac net> wrote:
While speaking with them today, thier engineer and I got into a little bit of a disagreement as to why people peer with each other at public exchange points.
There is also an important reason to be connected at several exchange points: reliability. If you just have one transit provider, you're more vulnerable than with one transit provider plus a variety of peerings, which will still carry at least part of the traffic if the main provider fails.
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- Re: a question about the economics of peering Simon Lockhart (Dec 01)
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- Re: a question about the economics of peering Nigel Titley (Dec 01)
- Re: a question about the economics of peering Stephane Bortzmeyer (Dec 01)
- RE: a question about the economics of peering Hitesh Patel (Dec 01)
- [OT] RE: a question about the economics of peering Rafi Sadowsky (Dec 01)