Re: Question about peering

["Robert E. Seastrom" <rs () seastrom com>]

"Luke S. Crawford" <lsc () prgmr com> writes:

> On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 07:25:24PM -0400, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> > Generally the costs of transit are pushed down by competition.  As a
> > vendor your costs for bandwidth/transport/port*bw may drop but you are
> > unlikely to drop your prices to your customers merely because your
> > costs have gone down unless prompted to by a competitor.
>
> ah, so it's not the cost of production that is the problem, it is
> the 'natural monopoly' state of an IX that is the problem.
>
> It seems like that problem could be overcome by making the 
> IX a cooperative owned by the members, maybe? 

The whole datacenter?

> > Consider the case of a peering n00b network (the target of this
> > discussion after all) in hypothetical facility that charges
> > $1000/month for a gigabit ethernet port on the peering fabric.  You
>
> I am in almost that exact position (A peering n00b network) - Of 
> couse, I'm fairly certain I'm paying sucker prices,  but I can get a 
> gigE to any2 at 55 s market for less than a third the price you quote. 
>
> just a data point.

You might want to analyze peering opportunities there:
https://www.peeringdb.com/private/facility_view.php?id=20&peerParticipantsPrivatesPage=1

and get some netflow data out of your own network to see just how much
traffic you're sending there.  Fairly easy to do with only 34
participants.

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-r