Re: Question about peering

[Justin Wilson <lists () mtin net>]

        We are cross-connected with several ISPs at a couple of data centers.
Very helpful in one situation as several of us share a soft-switch.

        Justin

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Szarka <szlists () szarka org>
Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 4:50 PM
To: <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Re: Question about peering

> On 4/6/2012 3:11 PM, Anurag Bhatia wrote:
> > I am curious to know how small ISPs plan peering with other interested
> > parties. E.g if ISP A is connected to ISP C via big backbone ISP B, and
> > say
> > A and C both have open peering policy and assuming the exist in same
> > exchange or nearby. Now at this point is there is any "minimum
> > bandwidth"
> > considerations? Say if A and C have 1Gbps + of flowing traffic - very
> > likely peering would be good idea to save transit costs to B. But if A
> > and
> > C have very low levels - does it still makes sense? Does peering costs
> > anything if ISPs are in same exchange? Does at low traffic level it
> > makes
> > more sense to keep on reaching other ISPs via big transit provider?
>
> One thing to consider is that peering can benefit both networks not just
> because of bandwidth savings, but because (given sufficient clue) they
> can deliver better performance and reliability to their mutual customers.