Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai

[Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>]

On 6/Dec/19 21:29, Keenan Tims wrote:

> We're currently seeing about 80% of our AS20940 origin traffic coming
> from transit, and I'm certain there's a significant additional amount
> which is difficult to identify coming from on-net caches at our
> upstream providers (though it appears from the thread that may be
> reducing as well). Only about 20% is coming from peering where we have
> significantly more capacity and lower costs. Whatever the algorithm is
> doing, from my perspective it doesn't make a lot of sense and is
> pretty frustrating, and I'm somewhat concerned about busting commits
> and possibly running into congestion for the next big event that does
> hit us, which would not be a problem if it were delivered over peering.

We've had 2 or 3 customers, in the last 3 months, complain about the
same thing - where they are seeing Akamai traffic drop over peering but
preferred via their transit service with us. We run a number of Akamai
AANP caches across our backbone.

We are working very closely with Akamai - and the customers - to resolve
this, I'll add.

Mark.