Re: Peering Exchange

[Bryan Socha via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

Check out nl nog's the ring (they have a looking glass), routeviews or
ripe's RIS project (bgplay) being an interface to the data).    You should
be able to find someone sending up bgp data to these projects that include
the route servers on different IX points.


Bryan Socha
Network Engineer
DigitalOcean


On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor () gmail com>
wrote:

> Is there a way to browse a route server at certain exchanges, and see who
> is and is not on the route server?
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Hugo Slabbert <hugo () slabnet com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Hugo
> >
> > hugo () slabnet com: email, xmpp/jabber
> > PGP fingerprint (B178313E):
> > CF18 15FA 9FE4 0CD1 2319 1D77 9AB1 0FFD B178 313E
> >
> > (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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----
> > > Mike Hammett
> > > Intelligent Computing Solutions
> > > http://www.ics-il.com