Re: Peering Exchange

[Hugo Slabbert <hugo () slabnet com>]

On Tue 2016-Jan-26 13:30:41 -0600, Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net> wrote:

> Google or Facebook are exactly who you would want to connect with and I'm fairly sure they're on the route servers.

...and have open peering policies with pretty low requirements.

https://peering.google.com/about/peering_policy.html
https://www.facebook.com/peering/

Gist:

Google (in NA and EU) asks for >100 mbps peak for bilateral peering, but 
are on route servers where present and are happy to dish out & pick up 
routes that way for anyone not pushing enough bits for direct sessions.

Facebook wants >50 mbps peak for bilateral peering, though I don't see them 
on route servers at e.g. the SIX.

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(also on Signal)

> Other than driving additional revenue by needing to buy ports to both or possible regulatory concerns, I'm not sure why 
> these companies spin up an exchange for every new fad that comes along. They all just boil down to an Ethernet fabric.
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> Mike Hammett
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