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Best way to supply colo customer with specific provider
From: Rick Kunkel <kunkel () w-link net>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:51:04 -0800 (PST)
Hello all, Being relatively new to the colocation business, we run into a fair number of issues that we've never run into before. Got a new one today, and although I can think of kludgey ways to accomplish what he wants, I'd rather get some other ideas first... We just had our first customer that's requesting bandwidth exclusively through a particular provider of ours (Cogent) at less expensive pricing. The money people here are up for it, but obviously, they want to make sure that he's confined to that Cogent connection. So now of course we're attempting to figure out the best way to do this, and I figured that rather than reinventing the wheel, I'd check to see how others accomplish things like this. The way I can imagine doing it is by using route-maps to steer all of this customer's traffic out the Cogent pipe, and modifying our BGP announcements by AS prepending on whatever block or blocks we set aside to be "Cogent-exclusive". Again though, this seems to me to lack a certain amount of, for lack of a better word, "grace". Any other suggestions? Thanks, Rick Kunkel
Current thread:
- Best way to supply colo customer with specific provider Rick Kunkel (Jan 30)
- RE: Best way to supply colo customer with specific provider Randal Kohutek (Jan 30)
- Re: Best way to supply colo customer with specific provider Steve Gibbard (Jan 30)
- Re: Best way to supply colo customer with specific provider matthew zeier (Jan 31)
- Re: Best way to supply colo customer with specific provider Andrew Gristina (Jan 31)