RE: a question about the economics of peering

[Hitesh Patel <Hitesh () nildram net>]

This is what exactly I said. Please see my comments.

Regards

Hitesh Patel

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:bortzmeyer () gitoyen net]
Sent: 01 December 2001 13:18
To: Alex Rubenstein
Cc: nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: a question about the economics of peering



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.