Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

[Faisal Imtiaz <faisal () snappydsl net>]

Sorry, by saying Peering  I  mean any kind of direct peering..

As to the other reason for running BGP, there are technical solutions to 
get around this 'lack of cooperation'.

Personally speaking, asking for BGP peering on a 'resi' grade service is 
like going to McDonalds, and asking for a cooking lesson from their Head 
Chef.

No flame or offense intended.

 Take us for example, we are an independent service provider, 
technically, can we do bgp over a DSL connection, the answer is yes, can 
we 'route' a class 'C' for someone purchasing a resi dsl service, the 
answer is yes...

Now the real question you are asking ... (or complaining about) .... is 
Do we want to do this ? from a business perspective ..answer is  NO..... 
from a Technical perspective... do we have the desire to support it  ?   
... answer is NO... .. Complex Routing and resi connections just don't 
mix  ... :)

So if we don't want to do this, why do you think or feel that VZ or any 
other Large provider should do this ?
(besides. there is this other minor issue that their infrastructure 
deployed to serve FIOS /  Cable  / ADSL / UVerse is not designed nor 
capable of doing BGP with end-user connection / routers.. ).



Regards.

Faisal Imtiaz
Snappy Internet&  Telecom
7266 SW 48 Street
Miami, Fl 33155
Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232
Helpdesk: 305 663 5518 option 2 Email: Support () Snappydsl net


On 3/13/2012 9:15 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Mark Gauvin<MGauvin () dryden ca>  wrote:
> > Peering is generally for a comercial endevor to my understandind fios
> > is a residential service so which are you trying to accomplish
> 'peering'  really is a loaded term...
>
> 'settlement free peering' ?
> 'bgp peering' ?
>
> there are other meanings as well, but I think in the case the person I
> responded (Faisal?) was asking about he meant 'settlement free
> peering', which I don't think is what Justin meant, Justin just wants
> the same as most of the bgp speakers want: "multihoming".
>
> -chris